Greasby on the Wirral - Includes then-and-now historical photos, an events calendar, and links.
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Society and Culture Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Society and Culture
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 Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Society and Culture It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Society and Culture
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Society and Culture "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) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Society and Culture
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Society and Culture Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Society and Culture
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Society and Culture
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Society and Culture I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Society and Culture
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Society and Culture
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Society and Culture "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 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Society and Culture
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Society and Culture Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Society and Culture Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture
