St Gregory's Church - Parish church, also containing information about other churches in the parish. Tour, history, services, activities, noticeboard and local links.
Bedale Writers - Creative writing and poetry group. Examples of the group's work, contact details, message board and guestbook.
Bedale Methodist Circuit - Covering 8 rural churches in the area. Description of the area, newsletter and details of their ministry of healing.
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Society and Culture Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Society and Culture Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Society and Culture
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Society and Culture
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Society and Culture Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Society and Culture blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Society and Culture
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Society and Culture We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Society and Culture
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Society and Culture
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Society and Culture "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Society and Culture
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Society and Culture
