Southport and Sefton Heritage - Local history and genealogy. Includes information on surnames and historical figures.
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) History The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder History
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe History I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun History
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. History "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr History
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) History
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx History "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 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz History
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran History My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die History
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer History Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana History
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry History 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 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus History
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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant History Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken ... 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
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, History
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) History Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin History
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall History We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) History
