Barton Theatre Company - Amateur theatre company producing three to four shows each year for the local community. Information on the current and season productions, history, ticket, and contact details.
Rotary Club of Eccles - Social and charitable fund raising organisation. Describes the organisation and its objectives with information about membership.
Swinton Open Space - Protest site against development plans of a greenfield and brownfield site in Swinton / Eccles. Users can view proposed work and sign a petition.
Worsley Cruising Club Limited - Amateur waterways boating organisation. Details include photographs, membership details and application form.
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Eccles Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Eccles
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Eccles This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Eccles
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Eccles There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Eccles
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Eccles "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Eccles
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eccles The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Eccles
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Eccles "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 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Eccles
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Eccles Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Eccles
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Eccles I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Eccles
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Eccles Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Eccles
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Eccles "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Eccles
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Eccles Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Eccles
