Andy Feron's Family web site - Photographs and links from a baby, lists personal information and contact details.
1911 Chorltonville Brochure - Online reproduction of the original brochure for Chorltonville garden village. Lists the opening ceremony, officers and objectives, comments, and terms and conditions.
Old Chorlton Web Snapshot - A collection of postcards and historical facts about the area. Includes pictures and written history.
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Society and Culture
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Society and Culture
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Society and Culture I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture "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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller 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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Society and Culture
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Society and Culture blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Society and Culture
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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." Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Society and Culture May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Society and Culture
