Keighley and Worth Valley Railway - This preserved railway in West Yorkshire, runs steam trains from Keighley, 5-miles up the Worth Valley to Haworth and Oxenhope.
KeighleyWeb - Comprehensive guide to Keighley and the surrounding villages. History of the area, and information about what's in Keighley. Links to many Keighley related sites.
Airedale Allergy Centre - A clinic for those suffering from allergies, intolerances and chemical sensitivities. Information about conditions and treatments, appointements and costs.
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Keighley If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Keighley
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Keighley
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Keighley Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
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Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Cynthia Heimel If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Keighley An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Keighley
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Thought is action in rehearsal.
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-- Bernard Baruch When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Keighley
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Keighley
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Keighley "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Keighley
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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-- Thomas Jefferson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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- Mark Twain Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Keighley
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Keighley Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Keighley
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Keighley "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Keighley