Virtual Saddleworth - Informational and graphical site comprising of photographs and animations, including a virtual tour feature which provides the visitor "a taste of saddleworth online."
Visit Oldham - A guide to leisure, entertainment, accommodation, shopping, heritage, villages and events.
yourOldham.com - An interactive guide to entertainment, nightlife in the area. Lists pubs, clubs, restauraunts and take-a-ways.
Saddleworth - Provides community information and business directory.
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Guides and Directories There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Guides and Directories
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "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-) 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 Guides and Directories The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Guides and Directories
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Guides and Directories
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "... 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) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Guides and Directories "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Guides and Directories
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "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) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Guides and Directories
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Guides and Directories "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Guides and Directories Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Guides and Directories
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Guides and Directories When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Guides and Directories
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Guides and Directories
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Guides and Directories 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Guides and Directories
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Guides and Directories
