Bentleys - Bentlys is a 48-seater, non-smoking restaurant in Shelf. You can read the menu here, and book online.
Calderdale Libraries - Includes the Millennium Archive, readers' groups and book reviews. General Information on the libraries in Calderdale.
Ryburn 3 Step Folk Club - An independent folk development project which organises a range of regular activities and special events.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Arts and Entertainment The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Arts and Entertainment
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Arts and Entertainment "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts and Entertainment
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Arts and Entertainment The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Arts and Entertainment
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Arts and Entertainment Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Arts and Entertainment Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Arts and Entertainment
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Arts and Entertainment Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "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) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Arts and Entertainment
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Arts and Entertainment Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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