Tell Us What You Think - Wigan and Bolton Health Authority want to improve sexual health services for men who have sex with men and provides a questionnaire.
Bolton Methodist Circuit - Covers twenty one churches except the town centre, which is a separate circuit. Local churches, circuit staff, Local Preachers, news and photos plus town information.
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Society and Culture I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Society and Culture "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Society and Culture
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Society and Culture
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Society and Culture My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Society and Culture "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Society and Culture
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Society and Culture All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Society and Culture
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Society and Culture The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Society and Culture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Society and Culture
