Welcome to Sacriston - About the village: the community centre, photographs, Big Meeting Day and the history of the village including its colliery. Helen Britteon.
Sacriston Colliery Band - A 4th section brass band. New members welcome. Details of history, vacancies, contact details of officials and rehearsal schedule.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Sacriston The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Sacriston
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Sacriston Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Sacriston
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Sacriston I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Sacriston
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Sacriston Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Sacriston
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. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Sacriston Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Sacriston
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Sacriston A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Sacriston
"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) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Sacriston "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Sacriston
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Sacriston There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Sacriston
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Sacriston Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Sacriston
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Sacriston 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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Sacriston
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Sacriston No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sacriston
