Chadderton Historical Society - A record of the development of the area and its people, within a historical context, with local links.
North & South Chadderton Methodist Church - Offers overview, history, mission and service information for both churches, together with a newsletter. Part of the Oldham and Saddleworth circuit.
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Society and Culture "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Society and Culture
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Society and Culture I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Society and Culture "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Society and Culture
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Society and Culture All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Society and Culture
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Society and Culture "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Society and Culture
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Society and Culture The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Society and Culture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Society and Culture
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Society and Culture You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Society and Culture
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Society and Culture Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture
