Heswall and District Council for Voluntary Service - One of many Councils across the country, promoting voluntary activity for the benefit of local people. Site includes information about events, children's holiday activities, the volunteer bureau, and contact details.
Heswall Rotaract - Club for young people aged 18-30, organising social and charitable events. Includes information about activities.
Barnston and Pensby Church - Christ Church Barnston, and St Michael and All Angels Pensby. Features a history of Barnston Church and the parish, information about services, newsletters, and a who's who.
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Society and Culture
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Society and Culture
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Society and Culture The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Society and Culture
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Society and Culture "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Society and Culture
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Society and Culture As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright 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
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Society and Culture The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Society and Culture "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Society and Culture
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture
