The Greater Manchester Record Office - Written heritage of the area. The earliest document is dated 1197. Provides indexes of births marriages and deaths in England and Wales 1837-1965.
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Genealogy It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Genealogy "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Genealogy
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Genealogy Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Genealogy
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Genealogy "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Genealogy
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Genealogy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Genealogy
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genealogy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Genealogy
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Genealogy Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Genealogy
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Genealogy "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Genealogy It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Genealogy
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Genealogy Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Genealogy
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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Genealogy All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your What's new? Most of my wife. Genealogy
