Brighouse Town AFC - History and information about the club, including fixtures, results, match reports and team news. Also an archive of previous years' results. Contact details.
Ashdene - Naturist club situated near Brighouse, run by members for members. Includes details of facilities available.
Brighouse Sports Club - Information about their facilities for rugby, cricket and bowling; membership, social events and catering.
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Recreation and Sports
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Recreation and Sports It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Recreation and Sports
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Recreation and Sports "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Recreation and Sports
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Recreation and Sports
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
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- Henry David Thoreau Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Recreation and Sports
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Recreation and Sports The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Recreation and Sports
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Recreation and Sports "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." Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Recreation and Sports
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Recreation and Sports Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports
