Sefton Women's and Children's Aid - Charity for victims of domestic violence providing refuge for women and children, counselling and support.
Sefton EYDCP - Early Years Development and Childcare Partnership for the borough. Information about projects, and resources for parents and for those working in the area.
Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre - Sanctuary for pets, wildlife and farm animals in danger. Includes information about animals available for rehousing and how you can help.
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trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Society and Culture I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Society and Culture Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Society and Culture
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Society and Culture
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture 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 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Society and Culture
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Society and Culture "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Society and Culture Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Society and Culture
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Society and Culture
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Society and Culture The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture
