Pontefract and Castleford Express - Local news, sports, features, weather, and classified advertising. Also a comprehensive directory of local companies with over 3000 entries.
Castleford Young Musicians - Young people's choir and wind band - information and pictures, details of rehearsals and recordings, events programme, history, and news.
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Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Castleford Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Castleford
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Castleford The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Castleford
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry 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? Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Castleford "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Castleford
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Castleford "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Castleford
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Castleford The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Castleford
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Castleford Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Castleford
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Castleford He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Castleford
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Castleford 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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Castleford
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Castleford "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Castleford
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Castleford "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Castleford
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Castleford Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Castleford
