Images of England - Farnworth and Westhoughton archive photograph series complied by Ken Beevers. Provides extracts from the local historian's books, includes old pictures and descriptions.
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Society and Culture
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Society and Culture The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society and Culture If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans 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 Society and Culture
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Society and Culture The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle 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 Society and Culture
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture "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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Society and Culture I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Society and Culture
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Society and Culture I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Society and Culture
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Society and Culture Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Society and Culture
