Huyton Today - Free community newspaper for Huyton, produced by pupils and staff at Knowsley Hey School. Includes story archive.
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Huyton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Huyton
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Huyton Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Huyton
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Huyton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Huyton
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Huyton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Huyton
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Huyton The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Huyton
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Huyton "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Huyton
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Huyton In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Huyton
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Huyton A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Huyton
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Huyton "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Huyton
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Huyton "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Huyton
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Huyton Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Huyton
