Lancashire and Cheshire Photographic Union - North West branch of the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain. Details objectives, list of member clubs, programme of events and competitions.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Photography The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Photography
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Photography Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Photography
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Photography Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Photography
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Photography "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Photography
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Photography A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Photography
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Photography Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Photography
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Photography Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. 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 Photography
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Photography 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Photography
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Photography Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Photography
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Photography Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Photography
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Photography Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Photography
