Dearne Valley Camera Club - Shows club officials, location, programme, competitions, exhibition, news, pictures by members and entry details for the Wath Salon.
The Red Lion - Details of upcoming live performances, gigs, diary of events, plus photos.
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Wath Upon Dearne Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Wath Upon Dearne
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Wath Upon Dearne The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Wath Upon Dearne
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Wath Upon Dearne With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Wath Upon Dearne
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wath Upon Dearne Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Wath Upon Dearne
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Wath Upon Dearne Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Wath Upon Dearne
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Wath Upon Dearne Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Wath Upon Dearne
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Wath Upon Dearne Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Wath Upon Dearne
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Wath Upon Dearne Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wath Upon Dearne
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Wath Upon Dearne Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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, Wath Upon Dearne
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Wath Upon Dearne When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Wath Upon Dearne
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Wath Upon Dearne It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Wath Upon Dearne
