The Real Bury Pub & Beer Guide - One stop guide to a large number of pubs and beers available in the area, with reviews of the pubs visited by the site's author.
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Guides and Directories For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Guides and Directories
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Guides and Directories "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Guides and Directories
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Guides and Directories Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Guides and Directories
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Guides and Directories Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Guides and Directories
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Guides and Directories Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Guides and Directories Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Guides and Directories
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Guides and Directories "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Guides and Directories "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Guides and Directories
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours 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 difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Guides and Directories "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Guides and Directories
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Guides and Directories People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Guides and Directories
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Guides and Directories Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Guides and Directories
