St John the Evangelist - Contact details and information of services at the Church of England parish church.
St Luke's and Whitechapel - Contact details and information about the services at the Church of England parish church.
Rotary Club in Cleckheaton - Details of membership and their activities. Information on meetings and on Cleckheaton and its history.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Society and Culture Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Society and Culture When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H 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? Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "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) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Society and Culture
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Society and Culture I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Society and Culture
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Society and Culture Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Society and Culture
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Society and Culture She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Society and Culture
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Society and Culture "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Society and Culture
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Society and Culture ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Society and Culture
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Society and Culture The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Society and Culture Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
