Classic Buses - Contains single-deck half cabs, bus rallies, news, tickets, British Bus Preservation Group, Victoria Coach Station, British vehicles in Australia, examination of preservation in 1961, and vehicle biographies.
Widnes and Halton Buses - Contains photographs and description of preserved buses formerly operated by Widnes Corporation or Halton Transport.
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Preservation Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Preservation
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Preservation Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner 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" Preservation
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Preservation "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Preservation
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Preservation Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Preservation
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Preservation Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Preservation
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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.
-- Winston Churchill Preservation The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Preservation
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Preservation We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Preservation
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Preservation "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Preservation
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Preservation Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Preservation
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Preservation Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Preservation
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara 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 Preservation Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Preservation
