Halifax and Huddersfield Speakers Club - Information for people wishing to gain confidence and enhance their speaking skills. Membership and meeting details, FAQ, and newsletter.
Lee Mount Baptist Church - Offers information about the church and the baptist lifestyle, plus news and polls.
Halifax Long March - An annual sponsored walk to raise funds for Christian Aid, following a 26 mile secret route around Calderdale at Easter time. Information for participants and volunteers, and about the background organisation. Contact details.
St Maries Church - Catholic church. Offers Mass in English, Italian, and Polish. Contact information, church history, and Mass times.
Mount Zion Chapel, Halifax - Oldest surviving Methodist New Connexion chapel which houses the Horace Hird Collection of Methodist Ceramics. History, news open days and service times plus a search for grave and burial details.
Calderdale Mencap - A charity supporting people with learning difficulties; information about their programmes, services and activities.
"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 Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Society and Culture We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Society and Culture
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Society and Culture
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Society and Culture Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Society and Culture
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Society and Culture "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Society and Culture
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Society and Culture
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Society and Culture
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Society and Culture
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Society and Culture
