Kirkburton Rapier Dancers - Longsword dancing - a history of the group and their dances, with pictures and a calendar of events.
All Hallows - Church of England parish serving Kirkburton. Details of services and for contact.
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Kirkburton Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kirkburton
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Kirkburton Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Kirkburton
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. 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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Kirkburton Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Kirkburton
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Kirkburton The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Kirkburton
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kirkburton "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Kirkburton
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Kirkburton "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Kirkburton
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Kirkburton The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Kirkburton
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Kirkburton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Kirkburton
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Kirkburton I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Kirkburton
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kirkburton "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Kirkburton
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Kirkburton Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Kirkburton
