Baildon Art Club - Amateur artists group. Details and location of their weekly meetings, plus contact information.
Baildon Library Society - Aims to promote understanding between the library and the community through talks. Events schedule and contact information.
Milf - News of the 3-piece band, plus biographical information, music clips, gig guide, photos, live chat and forum.
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-- Will Rogers The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment
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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Arts and Entertainment
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Arts and Entertainment
Now comes the mystery.
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-- Henry Ford "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Arts and Entertainment
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Arts and Entertainment
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
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- Rudyard Kipling Arts and Entertainment 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Arts and Entertainment
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Arts and Entertainment Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Arts and Entertainment I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "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) Arts and Entertainment
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Arts and Entertainment They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Arts and Entertainment
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Arts and Entertainment Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
