Hazel Grove Baptist Church - Provides a diary of events, mission statement, youth work, a vision statement, contact and location details.
Norbury Parish Church - Middle of the way / evangelical worship. Wide range of childrens activities from scrambling to traditional Scout and Guide Groups. Informative web site. Grade 2 listed building.
Stockport Speakers club - Social club aiming to assist members improve their speaking and presentation skills. Diary of activities from competitive speaking through to social activities.
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Society and Culture Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Society and Culture You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society and Culture Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Society and Culture
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture "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) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Society and Culture
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Society and Culture "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "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 Society and Culture Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Society and Culture All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." 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 What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 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 Society and Culture A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
