Animals in Distress Sanctuary - A sanctuary dedicated to the well being, shelter and re-homeing of all kinds of animals, in distress or lost. Offers membership, sponsorship and contact details.
RSPCA Tameside and Glossop Branch - Rehouses animals brought in by RSPCA Inspectors using donated time and money. Also offers financial assistance to owners whose animals need urgent veterinary attention or to have their animals neutered. Pictures of pets for adoption, success stories and information on other schemes such as assisted pet neutering
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Animal Welfare Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Animal Welfare
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Animal Welfare Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Animal Welfare
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Animal Welfare It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Animal Welfare
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Animal Welfare The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Animal Welfare
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Animal Welfare In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Animal Welfare
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Animal Welfare "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Animal Welfare
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Animal Welfare For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Animal Welfare
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Animal Welfare "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Animal Welfare
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Animal Welfare Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Animal Welfare
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Animal Welfare "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Animal Welfare
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Animal Welfare I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Animal Welfare
