A Mellor Boyhood - Life in a Derbyshire village between two world wars.
Marple Highway Watch - A site run by Marple Community Council showing poor highway maintenance in the area that they believe Stockport Council should be addressing. Encourages residents to report problems in their area.
Marple Community Council - A volunteer Community Group attempting to focus public opinion within Marple concerning, Planning, Housing, Environment, Leisure, Education and Transport issues. Includes meeting dates, agenda and minutes of meetings.
Hawk Green Residents' Association - Residents' Association for the Hawk Green area of Marple. Includes a newsletter, events diary, history and contacts information.
Marple Centre Regeneration Partnership - Non-political organisation with the aim of working together to enhance Marple District Centre. Site includes an introduction, the action plan, latest news and notes of meetings.
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "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." Society and Culture There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) 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 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture "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) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Society and Culture History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Society and Culture
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Society and Culture
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Society and Culture The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society and Culture "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Society and Culture
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture 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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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