Knowhere Guide to Farnworth - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Guides and Directories Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Guides and Directories
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Guides and Directories Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Guides and Directories I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Guides and Directories
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Guides and Directories Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Guides and Directories "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) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Guides and Directories
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories "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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Guides and Directories
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Guides and Directories Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Guides and Directories
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Guides and Directories Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Guides and Directories "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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