St Anthony's - St Anthony's Catholic church, Parish of Wythenshawe. Provides mass times, location, parish history and events.
www.Poundswick.org.uk - A website for former pupils and staff of Poundswick grammar school, Poundswick high school.
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thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Nigerian Proverb Society and Culture
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-- Lewis Grizzard Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
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-- Peter F. Drucker Society and Culture
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings 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 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Society and Culture Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "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
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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.
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-- Sun Tzu Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Society and Culture I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Society and Culture
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Society and Culture "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture
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 perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "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) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Society and Culture
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Society and Culture
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Society and Culture "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
