Eccles Town - Unofficial town site. Includes history timeline, maps, recent and historical photographs.
Eccles Grammar School Web - Nostalgia Focalpoint for Eccles Grammar School (now closed). Features reunions and old school photos.
Eccles and District Historical Society - Amateur historical group meeting once a month with guest speakers, slide shows, guided walks and local history publications.
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-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Society and Culture
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Society and Culture Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Society and Culture "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
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 Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor 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. Society and Culture Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Society and Culture "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Society and Culture I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Society and Culture
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Society and Culture Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Society and Culture
