Knowhere Guide to Leigh - Informal information supplied by locals. With links to a noticeboard facility.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Guides and Directories
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Guides and Directories "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) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Guides and Directories
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Guides and Directories Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Guides and Directories "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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." Guides and Directories
Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Guides and Directories We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Guides and Directories
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Guides and Directories "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Guides and Directories
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly 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 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Guides and Directories If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Guides and Directories
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Guides and Directories "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Guides and Directories "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Guides and Directories
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "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) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guides and Directories Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Guides and Directories
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing May you never leave your marriage alive. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Guides and Directories
