Woolpit - Events, societies, services, places to see in this village.
Woolpit Wolves - Football team who play in the Bury and District Sunday Football League. Fixtures, results and the squad.
Topclass Wedding Gowns - Bridal gowns and bridesmaids dresses. Welcome, overview and collection.
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Woolpit If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Woolpit
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "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) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Woolpit "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Woolpit
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Woolpit The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Woolpit
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Woolpit "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Woolpit
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Woolpit "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Woolpit
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Woolpit "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Woolpit
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Woolpit Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Woolpit
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Woolpit The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Woolpit
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Woolpit Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Woolpit
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Woolpit All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Woolpit
"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 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Woolpit The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Woolpit
