Rainhill Parish Council - The lowest tier of local government serving the residents of the village. Council information and local history, including details of the area's place in railway development.
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Rainhill Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Rainhill
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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) Rainhill Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Rainhill
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rainhill The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Rainhill
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Rainhill "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Rainhill
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Rainhill A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Rainhill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Rainhill "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Rainhill
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Rainhill "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Rainhill
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Rainhill "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rainhill
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Rainhill "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Rainhill
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Rainhill Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Rainhill
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Rainhill The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rainhill
