West Kirby Lions Club - Voluntary organisation for community service and an active social life. Includes information about their activities.
The History of West Kirby - Covers events in local history, mainly from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Society and Culture 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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Society and Culture
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Society and Culture "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans May you never leave your marriage alive. Society and Culture
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Society and Culture "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Society and Culture
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture 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 "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 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Society and Culture "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Society and Culture Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Society and Culture For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "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.) Society and Culture
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Society and Culture Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Society and Culture
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Society and Culture Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
