The North Meols Civic Society - Includes a programme of events, information about current activities, newsletters, a brief history of Churchtown, reviews of local history books, and links to other local groups and civic societies.
New Horizons - Friendship and social club for single people. Includes general information about activities.
Cats Protection Southport and District Branch - Charity dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of unwanted cats and kittens. Information on fund-raising, adoptions, cat care, and membership.
Southport Shopmobility Link - Charity offering wheelchairs and scooters for hire by people with mobility problems. Information about costs, and how you can help.
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society and Culture
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Society and Culture "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo 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 Society and Culture "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Society and Culture
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "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) Society and Culture 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 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber My other wife is beautiful. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Society and Culture
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) 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 Society and Culture
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Society and Culture
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Society and Culture "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Society and Culture
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
