Gargrave.org.uk - Community web site including current affairs, future events, local directory and history.
Ashfield Care Services - Nursing and residential homes for the elderly. Information about each home, their location and their facilities, and contact details.
Lavender House - Details the location, amenities and tariff for the bed and breakfast accommodation and also contains photographs of local places of interest.
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Gargrave Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Gargrave
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Gargrave Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Gargrave
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Gargrave To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Gargrave
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Gargrave "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Gargrave
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Gargrave I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Gargrave
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Gargrave I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Gargrave
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Gargrave When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "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) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Gargrave
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Gargrave I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Gargrave
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Gargrave There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Gargrave
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Gargrave "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Gargrave
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Gargrave There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Gargrave
