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The Lords of Ilkley Manor - A book called 'The Road to Ruin', the story of the way the Middelton family went from riches to rags over the period 1763 - 1947.
This is Ilkley - Ilkley Gazette provides a guide with news, sport and leisure activities, schools, businesses, and other local resources.
Ilkley.org - Community pages for Wharfedale. Includes local organisations, business directory, tourist guide and the local Design Statement.
Ancient Stones, walks around Ilkley - Five family walks around the prehistoric stones on Ilkley Moor. The site includes historical background on the stones, transport, map and contact details.
Ilkley All Saints Parish Church - Provides a brief history of this Church of England parish and church building, with photo. Includes information on Services, activities, groups, the clergy, and links to other area churches.
Ilkley Camera Club - Location and contacts, programme including competitions, pictures by members and links to photographic sites.
The Ilkley Community Fund - Information on the trust and grants they have made to support projects for the benefit of the community of Ilkley.
Ilkley Parish Council - Information about the council, announcements, and minutes of council meetings.
Ilkleyway - E-portal for Ilkley and Wharfedale, with directories of local companies, services, organisations, events and tourist attractions.
White Wells Online - A history of one of Ilkley Moor's landmarks; lots of background information on the buildings and the area, and on campaigns to preserve it.
Ilkley Orthodontics - Includes qualifications, description of services, frequently asked questions, and office information.
Ilkley-More.com - Community pages incorporating news, reviews and local events.
Christchurch - Joint Methodist and United Reformed Church. Service and worship details, arranging baptisms and weddings or funerals, groups, activities, prayer, devotional material, coffee centre, links, contact and activities for children and young people.
Transcendance - Christian dance company. Describes its activities and repertoire with biographies of the cast.
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Ilkley UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Ilkley The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Man and wife make one fool. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. -- Oscar Wilde Ilkley Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell Ilkley Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Ilkley You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Ilkley Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Ilkley Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Ilkley Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Ilkley Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other. -- W. Somerset Maugham There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Ilkley Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Ilkley Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Ilkley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holliday Ilkley Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes Ilkley "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Ilkley Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Ilkley When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together. -- Thomas Dekker If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Ilkley "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Ilkley Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Ilkley "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Ilkley You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Ilkley If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Ilkley
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