Modern History Sourcebook - The Leeds Woollen Workers Petition, 1786, against the use of machines in their industry.
Leodis Database - Searchable photographic archive for Leeds, which can be restricted by locality, and by decade or year.
The Church of St John the Evangelist - A brief guide to this church in central Leeds, no longer an active church but looked after by the Churches Conservation Trust.
The Urban Geography of Leeds - An account of the development and history of Leeds from the 18th century to the 20th.
The Story of Sewerage in Leeds - The history of the development of sewage services in Leeds from the 19th century, in 9 chapters.
The Battle of Winwaed - An account of a major battle in West Yorkshire in 655 AD, with ramifications for future development of England.
Sundials in and around Leeds - An introduction to sundials around Leeds; details of where to find the surviving examples.
Historic Trails - Two Historic Trails in Leeds from Leeds City Council. Maps and instructions, with historical notes and photographs.
The Local Studies Library - The library aims to make available all materials about Leeds. Useful links to West Yorkshire historical sources.
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. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin History It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford History
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) History It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt History
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau History
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "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) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb History The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning History
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" History Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) History
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs History I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer History
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) History "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) History
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa History Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw History
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous History I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton History
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin History It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon History
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words History It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) History
