Knowhere Guide to Eccles - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Guides and Directories
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories 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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Guides and Directories
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Guides and Directories
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Guides and Directories "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Guides and Directories "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Guides and Directories
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Guides and Directories Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 Guides and Directories
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Guides and Directories "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Guides and Directories "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Guides and Directories
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Guides and Directories I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Guides and Directories
