Kirkstall Online - Community website, resource and information centre for an area in NW Leeds. Discussion board, information about Kirkstall Abbey, community and festival news and pictures.
Kirkstall Valley Campaign - The detailed history and background of a ten-year community campaign to preserve and protect green open space near Leeds city centre.
Kirkstall Matters - The magazine of the Kirkstall Village Community Association in NW Leeds. Contents of current edition, and subscription information.
Millrace Organic Restaurant - Information on this organic restaurant, events, their menus and wine list, and their suppliers.
JVD Engineering - Sub-contract engineers working in all materials from mild steels, brass and plastics to hastelloy, inconel and duplex. Includes services.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kirkstall "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Kirkstall
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Kirkstall "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Kirkstall
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Kirkstall "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "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 Kirkstall
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Kirkstall It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Kirkstall
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Kirkstall You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Kirkstall
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Kirkstall A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Kirkstall
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Kirkstall Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Kirkstall
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Kirkstall blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Kirkstall
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "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) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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) Kirkstall Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Kirkstall
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Kirkstall Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Kirkstall
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Kirkstall A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Kirkstall
