Belle Vue Revisted - A history of the zoo and amusement park. Contains a mail bag, zoological garden and special attractions.
Our Manchester - A gateway to a number of local history sites, includes The White City, memories, the station and Edgar Wood, Architect.
Longsight Memories - A history in the period 1930 to mid 1960s told in the pictures and words of the people who lived there. Featuring Belle Vue, Plymouth Grove School, Ardwick Tech School, and Crowcroft Park.
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) History When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell History
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) History Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli History
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates History Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) History
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen History I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller History
Man and wife make one fool. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth History We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert History
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) History Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock History
If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position History We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire History
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) History His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams History
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl History If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken History
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker History A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words History
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville History "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) History
