Society and Culture Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: England :::: Manchester :::: Society and Culture ::

Society and Culture Links

Greening Greater Manchester - Over 150 projects to improve the environment, quality, tree development, regeneration, derelict land for the community. Lists current projects, case studies and contact details.
Redbricks Online - Community online, provides maps and places, people, actions and organisations and useful numbers.
Chinese Recipes and Culture - Promoting the Chinese culture and the community. Provides a comprehensive coverage of all things Chinese. Lists recipes, bonsai, feng shui, medicine and your name in Chenese.
Manchester Play - An information site for parents, children and providers of play activities for children in Manchester. It includes contacts, guidelines and information.
Bolton and Bury Information Advice and Guidance - Includes topics of childcare and money matter plus constructing a CV.
Birchfields News - Information and views on local events, community action, and campaigns in the area.
mymanchester - A portal providing links to community information. Lists local news, forums, events, jobs and contact details.
Carrbrook Village - Victorian village is set in a conservation area on the edge of the Pennines. Learn about culture, history and Golden Jubilee events.
The unofficial Manchester Townhall website - High resolution 360 degree panoramic views as seen from Manchester townhall clocktower.
New Century Family Gardens - A community garden funded by local organisations and tended by residents of East Manchester.
Manchester Wireless Network - Dedicated to setting up a free, broadband wireless network in the city. Describes the project with node map and hardware and software requirements.
Manchester Community Information Network - Aims and objectives, project lists, background details, funding and contact information for this registered charity.
Longdendale Online - The local site for information about Longdendale and the surrounding area.
Manchester Adoption Society - Small voluntary agency involved in finding families for older, emotionally damaged children. Also involved in supporting children, adopters and birth families. Includes information about activities and services.
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage -- Martin Luther "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Society and Culture "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Society and Culture Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you a hundre Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre Society and Culture When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Society and Culture "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. -- Wayne Gretzky I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Society and Culture "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Society and Culture Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money. -- Arthur Godfrey Society and Culture 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. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. -- Michel de Montaigne The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Society and Culture They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "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) Society and Culture Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche 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. -- Society and Culture "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. -- George Santayana "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Goodbye, Everybody! -- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Society and Culture blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Society and Culture It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber 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 "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Society and Culture
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |