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Fylde Tramway Society - Includes news, publications, events, restoration, and histories of Blackpool area and Birkenhead trams.
Light Rail Transit Association - Contains introduction to subject, news, technical and policy documents, photographs, membership information, events, tours, history, new and developing systems, and publications.
Troytrams - Contains images of Blackpool trams, including scrap and relocation pictures, and London tram 1858.
The Llandudno and Colwyn Bay Tramway Society - Photographs, history, news, and membership information along with the society's latest projects.
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All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?" -- Will Rogers A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia. -- Judith Viorst Trams Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Trams An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Trams "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Trams "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint. -- Robert Browning "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Trams Silence is argument carried out by other means. - ErnestoCheGuevara "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 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald spot. -- Elayne Boosler Trams I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo "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) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "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) Trams "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Trams "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--- -- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Trams Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Trams "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." 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