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Cyclopaedia to Halifax and Calderdale - A collection of trivia, miscellaneous facts, and interesting details.

Calderdale MBC - The home of Calderdale on the web. Find out about tourism, education and services, along with up to date news and weather information.

Calder Future - A partnership to improve the River Calder in West Yorkshire, its tributaries and bankside.

Calderdale Org UK - A community portal featuring local news, issues and events, a message forum, instant messaging, a business directory, classified ads, and downloads.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth Calderdale In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Calderdale 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 Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Calderdale I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon them. -- Anonymous Calderdale Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it? -- James Thurber "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine de Saint Exupery If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Calderdale A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. -- G. K. Chesterton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Calderdale "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Calderdale The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper. -- Smith & Jones The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Calderdale Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball. -- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong. - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Calderdale Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. -- Anon. A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Calderdale A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Calderdale In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Calderdale For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Calderdale The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Calderdale "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde Calderdale Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Calderdale Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Calderdale "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Calderdale Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Calderdale Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Calderdale This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce 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) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein Calderdale Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Calderdale
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