Merseyside Christian Youth Camps - Information about the youth camp including details of upcoming camp trips, and a tour of the site.
Merseyside Covenanters - Local branch of the Covies that meets to explore the truth about the Christian faith and to enjoy a range of activities (age range: 0-20+). Includes information about groups throughout the county, and photo archives.
Archdiocese of Liverpool - Roman Catholic archdiocese covering Merseyside (except Wirral), West Lancashire and the Isle of Man. Includes information about the cathedral, the archbishop and the Liverpool Archdiocesan Centre for Evangelisation, plus news and links.
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Religion Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Religion
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Religion "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Religion
"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) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Religion Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire 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 Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Religion
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Religion "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Religion
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Religion Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Religion
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Religion Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Religion
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn 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 me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Religion "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Religion
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Religion Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Religion
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Religion Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Religion
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Religion There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Religion
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Religion I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Religion
