St Helens Camera Club - Notes on the history, list of meetings, and officer contacts.
Cambridge Photography - Weddings, portraits, commercial photography, and restoration services.
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Photography If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Photography
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Photography A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Photography
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Photography When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Photography
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Photography Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Photography
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Photography "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Photography
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Photography The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Photography
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Photography Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Photography
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Photography The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Photography
"'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, Through the Looking Glass) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Photography 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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Photography
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Photography "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Photography
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Photography When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Photography
