The SJS Files - Photographs of Liverpool and surrounding areas, including historical postcards. Offers photos for purchase.
Merseycards - Photos of the region that can be sent as e-cards, plus wallpaper images.
Reflections - An archive of black and white photos, primarily of Merseyside. Covers transport, industry, commerce, leisure and events. Prints available for purchase.
BBC Liverpool: Webcams - Views from cameras in central Liverpool, the Wirral, Crosby and Cheshire.
Simon Jones Photography - Galleries of the Wirral Peninsula and Liverpool city centre, including 360-degree panoramic views.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "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) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Maps and Views
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Maps and Views He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Maps and Views
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Maps and Views ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Maps and Views Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Maps and Views A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Maps and Views
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Maps and Views
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern 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 Maps and Views Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Maps and Views If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Maps and Views "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Maps and Views
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Maps and Views "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Maps and Views
