Wrexham-Birkenhead Rail Users' Association - Voluntary organisation whose aims are the protection, promotion and development of the railway. Includes timetables, a map, descriptions of the state of the service, and membership information.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Transport It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transport
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Transport "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Transport "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Transport
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transport "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Transport
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Transport There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Transport
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Transport Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Transport
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Transport The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Transport
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Transport I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Transport
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Transport
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin 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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Transport "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Transport
