Wirral Index - Brief histories and photos of Wirral towns, also covers the lifeboats, and the Mersey Tunnels.
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Wirral Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wirral
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Wirral "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Wirral It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Wirral
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Wirral Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Wirral
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Wirral The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Wirral
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Wirral Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Wirral
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Wirral "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Wirral
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Wirral Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Wirral
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Wirral Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Wirral
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Wirral "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Wirral Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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