The Haydock Boys - A group of friends from Haydock. Includes photos from holidays and trips to motorbike events.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Personal Pages The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Personal Pages
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Personal Pages Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Pages
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) 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" Personal Pages If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Personal Pages
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Personal Pages In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Personal Pages Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Personal Pages
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Personal Pages "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Personal Pages
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Personal Pages 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 west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Personal Pages
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Personal Pages A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Personal Pages
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Personal Pages Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "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 Personal Pages
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Personal Pages "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Personal Pages
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers 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 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Personal Pages If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
