Pocklington RUFC - Club news, fixtures, results and club history.
Pocklington Methodist Church - Services, events, activities, mission statement, redevelopment news, circuit information, local area, location and information about refreshments for visitors to the area.
Madhyamaka Centre - Buddhist centre at Kilnwick Percy Hall. Visitors are welcome to attend courses or just enjoy the tranquillity for a few hours. Includes a meditation.
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Pocklington "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Pocklington
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Pocklington "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Pocklington
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Pocklington "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Pocklington
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Pocklington "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Pocklington Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Pocklington
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Pocklington Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Pocklington
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Pocklington The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Pocklington
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "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 Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Pocklington "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Pocklington
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Pocklington If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Pocklington
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Pocklington "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Pocklington
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Pocklington "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Pocklington
