Bingley Little Theatre - Information on the theatre and the season's programme. Details of ticket booking and contact.
Hot Aire! - A symphonic concert band (brass band plus). Information about the band and their music, with details of membership, rehearsals, and concert dates.
Bingley Harriers - Cross-country running club with a long and illustrious history. News of fixtures, results, events, and details of membership.
Ancient Bingley - Downloadable Adobe PDF file; a scanned copy of J Horsfall Turner's book - Ancient Bingley.
Bingley Relief Road - News, information and photographs of a bypass being built to relieve traffic from the centre of the town.
Bingley Methodist Church - Offers news, diary including services, new church with photos and contact.
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Bingley Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Bingley
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Bingley Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Bingley
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Bingley "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Bingley
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Bingley The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Bingley
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Bingley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Bingley
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Bingley How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Bingley
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "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) Bingley Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Bingley
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bingley Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Bingley
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Bingley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Bingley
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Bingley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Bingley
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Bingley It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Bingley
