Liverpool Jewish Genealogy Service - Researching, and transcribing into into digital formats items pertaining to Liverpool Jewish genealogical interest. Information about CD-ROMs, a facility to search their registers, articles and pictures about local Jewish history, a forum, and links.
Liverpool and S.W. Lancashire Family History Society - Encourages the study of family history and genealogy. Includes online resources, membership details, information about publications, a noticeboard, local group pages, and links.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Genealogy We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Genealogy
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Genealogy The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Genealogy
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Genealogy Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Genealogy
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Genealogy There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Genealogy
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Genealogy I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Genealogy
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Genealogy It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Genealogy
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Genealogy The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Genealogy
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Genealogy Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Genealogy
"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Genealogy "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Genealogy
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Genealogy Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Genealogy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Genealogy It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
