Leeds Children's Information Service - Childcare - Contact details for Leeds City Council's free, impartial information and guidance for parents and carers on registered (and some non-registered) childcare.
Methleys Neighbourhood Website - A Chapel Allerton community "turfed the street". Information on Home Zones, newsletter, projects and activities.
Queensview Multi-Storey Flats - Photos of Queensview and the Seacroft area including the new Seacroft Green Shopping Centre.
Leeds Polish School Reunion - World wide alumni news, photos and updates following the reunion celebrating 50 years of the Polish School in Leeds. Includes notices and forum. Site requires Flash.
Harehills-i - Young people from Harehills in Leeds express their views in a series of video projects. Includes a forum.
Stonebridge Chinese Services - Offer professional translation and interpreting services; also tutoring in ESL and Chinese, and cultural consultancy.
The Hunslet Club For Boys and Girls - An independent voluntary club for young people from the South Leeds area. Includes history, activities, people and projects.
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Society and Culture There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Society and Culture
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Society and Culture Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Society and Culture We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Society and Culture
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Society and Culture Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Society and Culture
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Society and Culture Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Society and Culture
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Society and Culture
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
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 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Society and Culture We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Society and Culture If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
