WirralCam - Cameras showing views of HMS Plymouth in Wirral Docks, North Hoyle Wind Farm, and Leasowe Lighthouse.
Wirralphotos4u - Photographs arranged by area, and information about the Wirral coat of arms.
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Maps and Views Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Maps and Views "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Maps and Views
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Maps and Views "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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
ha You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Maps and Views The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Maps and Views
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Maps and Views Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Maps and Views
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Maps and Views Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Maps and Views
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Maps and Views Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Maps and Views Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Maps and Views Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Maps and Views
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Maps and Views
