The Wirral and District Koi Society - Society offering advice and activities. Site includes members' ponds, seasonal tips, event information, and links.
Wirral Guide Association - This site provides activity, contact annd campsite information relative to the Guide Associations on the Wirral.
Wirral Snooker Leagues - Information about the Bebington and District Snooker League, and the Wirral Amateur Billiards and Snooker League.
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Recreation and Sports "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Recreation and Sports What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Recreation and Sports blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Recreation and Sports
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Recreation and Sports
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
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-- Andrew Brown Recreation and Sports "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Recreation and Sports
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 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 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Recreation and Sports A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Recreation and Sports
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Recreation and Sports "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Recreation and Sports
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Recreation and Sports
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Recreation and Sports There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Recreation and Sports
