Friends of Graves Park - Includes a history of the park, location maps and information about facilities available. Also includes details about the work of the Friends of Graves Park.
Friends of Ruskin Park - A voluntary group which aims to improve facilities and organise community events in Ruskin Park, Walkley. Includes news and details of events as well as photographs and a brief history of the park.
Sheffield Botanical Gardens - Information for visitors including a location map and opening hours. Also includes a history of the gardens and information about their restoration.
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Parks It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Parks
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Parks "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Parks
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Parks Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Parks
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parks Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Parks
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Parks They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Parks
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 Parks An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Parks
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Parks It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Parks
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Parks "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Parks
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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" Parks There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "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) Parks
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Parks The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Parks
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Parks To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Parks
