Hazel Grove, Near Manchester, England, UK, Earth - Critique of the locality and its amenities as seen by an individual in 1995 with feedback from others. Rest of site records many personal events and ideas from 1992 to 1999.
Hazel Grove Community Website - A directory of businesses such as home improvement, shops and eating places as well as social and public amenities. Sponsored by businesses in the surrounding areas.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Guides and Directories Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Guides and Directories We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Guides and Directories
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Guides and Directories You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Guides and Directories
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Guides and Directories
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Guides and Directories Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Guides and Directories
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein 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 .. 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 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Guides and Directories Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Guides and Directories
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Guides and Directories Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Guides and Directories
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Guides and Directories Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Guides and Directories
