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Batley Carr Tenants and Residents Association - Formed in 1990 to improve the estates. Describes their activities and celebrates their successes. Contact details.
The Batley Lad - Peter Hall's autobiography on-line - a story of working class life in Batley, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Gomersal, Birkenshaw and Leeds, on the buses, trains and Royal Mail.
Batley Poems, Batley Memories - Anonymous writings and poems of a Batley man.
St Joseph's Batley Carr - Information, news and history of this Roman Catholic parish, with contact details and a timetable for weekly services.
St Mary's Roman Catholic Church - Information, history, bulletin and times of services. Includes news of the Social Club, and information about local attractions.
All Saints Church of England - Belongs to Dewsbury Deanery, Wakefield Diocese. Information about the church, services, activities and events.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic. -- Marie Tonkin Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Society and Culture 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, A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) 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. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy. -- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Society and Culture "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein 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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. -- English Professor, Ohio University The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them. -- Ralph N. Gerard A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying "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." Society and Culture Marriage is a rest period between romances. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes your wife. -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Society and Culture "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Society and Culture Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Society and Culture He that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Society and Culture Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. -- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Society and Culture The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Society and Culture If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Society and Culture
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