Claddagh Photography - Wedding, portrait and commercial photography. Includes wedding galleries.
Hoylake Photographic Society - Events programme, competitions, examples of members' work and a collection of old photographs of West Kirby and Hoylake.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Photography He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Photography
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Photography Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Photography
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Photography Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Photography
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Photography The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Photography
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Photography "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Photography
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Photography I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Photography
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Photography One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Photography
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Photography Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux 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" They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Photography
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Photography In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Photography
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Photography When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Photography
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Photography I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Photography
