Birkenhead Visitor Guide - Includes an introduction to the area, information about attractions, a street map, and directories of cafés, bars, pubs and restaurants.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Travel and Tourism Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Travel and Tourism "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
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 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Travel and Tourism
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Travel and Tourism "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Travel and Tourism To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Travel and Tourism
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Travel and Tourism
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Travel and Tourism
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Travel and Tourism
"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) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Travel and Tourism "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Travel and Tourism
