Cawthorne Village - Pictures and information about the village, local businesses, tourist attractions, events, maps - and the village cricket club.
Cannon Hall Open Farm - Tourist information site including prices, opening times and location.
Cawthorne Duck Race and Gala - Annual Charity Event held at Cannon Hall near Barnsley. Site includes information about the event, plus charities, sponsors and contact details.
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber 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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Cawthorne "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Cawthorne
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Cawthorne Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Cawthorne
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Cawthorne Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Cawthorne
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Cawthorne "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Cawthorne
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cawthorne "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cawthorne
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Cawthorne The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Cawthorne
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Cawthorne He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Cawthorne
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Cawthorne "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Cawthorne
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Cawthorne Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Cawthorne
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom My other wife is beautiful. Cawthorne "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Cawthorne
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cawthorne There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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) Cawthorne
