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Yorkshire Post - Yorkshire's National Newspaper on-line. Today's front page, and breaking news. As well as current news and services, access the YP's archive.
LSRfm - Leeds Student Radio - schedule, programme information, news, mp3 archive.
BBC Radio Leeds - Serving West Yorkshire, and gateway to full range of BBC services.
Radio Aire - Independent radio station for Leeds and surrounding area. Includes programme schedule, background information on presenters and DJs, news, music, and sport. Links to online purchase of tickets for gigs.
BBC - Leeds - News, weather, sport, information and entertainment for the city of Leeds and surrounding area. Gateway to all BBC on-line resources.
Yorkshire Television - Comprehensive site covering this Leeds-based ITV broadcaster.
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes News and Media The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold News and Media Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward News and Media "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown News and Media "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage. -- Will Rogers "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton News and Media Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx News and Media Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice. -- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down. -- Russell Baker News and Media History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill We have art to save ourselves from the truth. - Friedrich Nietzsche Friends applaud, the Comedy is over. -- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words News and Media [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said. -- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime. -- Alphonse Allais News and Media I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. - Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw News and Media Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons 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 News and Media "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. -- General George Patton Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer News and Media I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) News and Media Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! News and Media I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all 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 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler News and Media I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -- John Powell News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous News and Media Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) News and Media When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck News and Media To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra News and Media Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart News and Media
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