Ruthrieston West Church - Details of services, groups and organisations, plus pictures and information on the church's history.
Saint Joseph's - Catholic church. Mass times, directions and parish activities.
Saint Mary's Cathedral - Cathedral parish. Information on parish groups, mass times and contact details.
Saint Peter's - Mass times, history, bulletin and information on parish groups and the Ogilvie Institute (pastoral education).
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Christianity I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Christianity
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Christianity Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Christianity
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Christianity Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Christianity
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Christianity The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Christianity
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Christianity NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Christianity
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 "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) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Christianity The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Christianity
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Christianity Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Christianity
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Christianity We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "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) Christianity You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Christianity
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Christianity To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Christianity
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Christianity "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Christianity
