Port Sunlight Village Trust - Information about the Heritage Centre and other attractions, including the Lady Lever Art Gallery and Hulme Hall. Includes a group booking form for the Heritage Centre.
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Port Sunlight Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
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"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
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done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Port Sunlight
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Port Sunlight The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes Port Sunlight
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Port Sunlight Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Port Sunlight
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Port Sunlight "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Port Sunlight
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Port Sunlight "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Port Sunlight To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Port Sunlight
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Port Sunlight Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Port Sunlight
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Port Sunlight Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Port Sunlight
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Port Sunlight Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Port Sunlight
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins What's new? Most of my wife. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Port Sunlight All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe 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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Port Sunlight
