Sefton Village - Current information on the village along with its history. Site includes the text of an evening of readings from the diary of Nicholas Blundell.
Sefton St Helen's Church - The only grade 1 listed building in the Borough of Sefton and one of Merseyside's oldest buildings.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Maghull In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Maghull
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Maghull We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Maghull
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Maghull One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Maghull
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Maghull "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Maghull
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying 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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Maghull What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maghull
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Maghull Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maghull
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Maghull Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Maghull
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Maghull The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Maghull
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maghull The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Maghull
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Maghull Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Maghull
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Maghull 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Maghull
