Kirklees Green Party - Manifesto, with details of councillors, membership, meetings and contacts.
Kirklees Metropolitan Council Conservatives - Provides biographical and contact details of Kirklees Councillors. Includes a brief history of Colne Valley and its Conservative Association.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Politics There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Politics
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Politics What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Politics
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Politics In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Politics
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 I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Politics Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Politics
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Politics
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Politics Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Politics
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Politics How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Politics
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost 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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Politics
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Politics We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Politics
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Politics The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Politics
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Politics Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Politics
