Knowhere Guide to Droylsden - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Guides and Directories No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Guides and Directories
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Guides and Directories Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Guides and Directories
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Guides and Directories "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Guides and Directories
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Guides and Directories Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Guides and Directories
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories 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 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Guides and Directories
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Guides and Directories Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Guides and Directories
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Guides and Directories Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Guides and Directories
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Guides and Directories There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Guides and Directories
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Guides and Directories
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Guides and Directories It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Guides and Directories
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Guides and Directories When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Guides and Directories
