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BBC Online: Liverpool - News, sport, features, travel information, weather, entertainment guides, virtual tours, local talk, competitions, and information about local BBC television and radio.
icLiverpool - Liverpool Echo and Daily Post. Local news, entertainment listings, sports news, businesses, restaurants, students, ex-pats, shopping, tourist attractions, community groups, message boards, weather, and advertising ratecards.
The Liverpool Clarion - Satirical local news, sport, business and features.
ICON - University of Liverpool student radio station. Includes streaming audio, a schedule, information about events, and committee contacts.
Everything that can be invented has been invented. - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller 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 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that M&Ms really do melt in your hand... -- Peter Oakley News and Media It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett News and Media I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) News and Media May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous News and Media They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday 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 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius News and Media "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody News and Media When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein News and Media He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock News and Media "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) 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 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers News and Media Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) News and Media Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. -- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi News and Media When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. News and Media Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. -- Edward P. Tryon The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm News and Media The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) News and Media I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did. -- Henry James "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. -- Georges Danton, to his executioner It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler News and Media No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster News and Media We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh People only see what they are prepared to see. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford News and Media "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers News and Media Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde 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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) News and Media Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. - Aristotle Onassis News and Media Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe- inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect i News and Media Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. -- Clive James Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. News and Media
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