Views of West Kirby - Pictures of the Marine Lake, the River Dee, the beach, Safeways, and local pubs.
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Maps and Views We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Maps and Views
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Maps and Views A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Maps and Views
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Maps and Views Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Maps and Views
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Maps and Views "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Maps and Views
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Maps and Views Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and 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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Maps and Views Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Maps and Views The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Maps and Views
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Maps and Views Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Maps and Views
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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, "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Maps and Views I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Maps and Views
