Welcome to Pennine Yorkshire - The official tourism website for Pennine Yorkshire - the English districts of Barnsley, Calderdale and Kirklees. An area of dramatic landscapes with a rich industrial and cultural heritage.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "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 Travel and Tourism "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Travel and Tourism Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Travel and Tourism blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Travel and Tourism
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Travel and Tourism "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Travel and Tourism
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "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) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Travel and Tourism "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Travel and Tourism
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Travel and Tourism
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Tourism
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Travel and Tourism "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Travel and Tourism
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Travel and Tourism Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Travel and Tourism Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Travel and Tourism Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Travel and Tourism
