Knowsley Council for Voluntary Service - Promotes and supports voluntary action throughout the borough. Information about their activities and services, and a directory of voluntary and community groups.
Knowsley Local History - Timeline, history and old photographs of towns and villages, plus local celebrities.
Knowsley Disability Employment Forum - Representing the voluntary, public, community and independent sectors in Knowsley, Merseyside. Introduction and contact details.
Knowsley Counselling Agency - Contact information and details of what areas are covered, including relationships and children's issues.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Society and Culture Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Society and Culture There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) 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 You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Society and Culture I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Society and Culture
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Society and Culture 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Society and Culture
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 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Society and Culture You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Society and Culture
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 A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Society and Culture If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Society and Culture
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Society and Culture "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Society and Culture
