Brighouse and Clifton Team Parish - Details of services and clergy, with links to Wakefield Diocese. Covers St Martin's, St Chad's and Clifton St John.
Brighouse United Church - An invitation to an evangelical congregation, with details of services offered and timetable for different meetings. Contact details.
Early History of Brighouse - From the West Yorkshire Archaeology Service, an account of the early history of the town.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Society and Culture "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Society and Culture
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Society and Culture The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Society and Culture Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Society and Culture By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Society and Culture
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Society and Culture "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Society and Culture
"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) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Society and Culture There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Society and Culture
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society and Culture A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Society and Culture
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Society and Culture "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
