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Batley.com - Portal with information for both residents and tourists.
Batley Towntalk - Information about the town, Yorkshire Mill Village, with news and events calendar, and a directory of local shops and businesses.
Homepage Batley - General information about the town and its history, with news, events listings, and directories of businesses and community organisations.
The Alder House Hotel - Georgian House hotel on 2.5 acres, also available for weddings, business meetings and conferences. Mulberry's Restaurant and York Suite.
The Sarah Taylor School of Dance - Located in Batley, West Yorkshire, The Sarah Taylor School of Dance welcomes girls and boys from 3 years of age to learn Ballet, Tap, Freestyle, Cheerleading, Drama, Song and Dance Classes.
...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Batley "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow Batley "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Boies Penrose, 1931 Batley Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Batley "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Batley Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow Batley Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Batley "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens Batley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone Batley Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards 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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Batley Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year. -- Bette Davis Batley "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Batley 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 Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things: and in that Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Batley "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton Batley "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. -- John Von Neuman Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Batley What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. -- Benjamin Disraeli Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Batley The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Batley Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Batley The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Batley If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Batley By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce Batley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Batley
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