Calderdale and Kirklees Food Futures - Information on workshops for local farmers, food producers, suppliers, community organisations, health agencies, public sector bodies and others for local food projects. Details of projects, grow your own, and a calendar of local events.
St Anne's - Kirklees - Details of St Anne's Shelter and Housing Action services in Kirklees, offering accommodation as a part of community mental health services.
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Society and Culture Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Society and Culture
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Society and Culture Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Society and Culture "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Society and Culture It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Society and Culture
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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
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I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan 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 Society and Culture "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Society and Culture
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Society and Culture 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) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Society and Culture All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Society and Culture
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Society and Culture When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "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 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Society and Culture Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Society and Culture
