Out and About in Kirklees - Information about the area, with directories of days out, night life, theatre, and eating out.
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Kirklees A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Kirklees
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Kirklees A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Kirklees
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Kirklees "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Kirklees
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Kirklees "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Kirklees
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 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 Kirklees Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Kirklees
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kirklees A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Kirklees
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Kirklees Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Kirklees
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Kirklees Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Kirklees
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Kirklees The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Kirklees
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Kirklees I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kirklees
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Kirklees How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Kirklees
