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CrotchetKids - Music theory teaching booklets for children and music lessons for all ages. Louise Taylor in Elland.
Elland Silver Band - Information about the band and their repertoire, their history, and the players. Calendar of concerts, and details of rehearsal sessions.
Rex Cinema - Information, film programmes and times for one of the oldest purpose built cinemas in the UK.
Elland Team Parish - Details of services in St Mary the Virgin and All Saints Church of England parishes. Links to the Diocese of Wakefield.
St Thomas, Greetland - Details of services and clergy, with links to Wakefield CofE Diocese.
Steelman Powerlifting Club - Coaching for competitive powerlifters. Photos and contact details.
Pinfold Guesthouse - Details of accommodation and facilities offered, very close to M62. Tariff and contact details, with information about local attractions.
Paul Cockcroft Properties - Information on apartments in a converted Georgian mansion, and for rent. In Elland, near Halifax, M62, and other parts of W Yorkshire connurbation. Contact details.
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Elland Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Elland When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle 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 Elland The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Elland "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Elland "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer Elland Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne 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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Elland "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) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman Elland The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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 Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire. -- Gen. George "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Elland "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Elland Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Elland The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Elland Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Elland To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf Elland I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. -- Pope John Paul I To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde Elland The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? -- Robert Schuller "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Elland Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain Elland "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Elland "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based Elland The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Elland "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Elland A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Elland
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