The Thoresby Society - Promotes interest and research into the history of Leeds and its neighbourhood. An online collection of articles and a time-line. Details of membership, programme of events, and a list of publications.
The Leeds Indexers - An informal group of family historians, who maintain this on-line listing of sources for records useful to local and family historians.
Ford-Maguire Society of Leeds - Documenting the socialist, feminist and other radical history of the Leeds area. Includes information on communism in Leeds, riots in the city, references, and biographies of Isabella Ford and Tom Maguire.
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" We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Local History Groups The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Local History Groups If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Local History Groups
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Local History Groups I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Local History Groups
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Local History Groups In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Local History Groups
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Local History Groups Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Local History Groups
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Local History Groups Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Local History Groups
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Local History Groups "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Local History Groups
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Local History Groups It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Local History Groups
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Local History Groups In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Local History Groups
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Local History Groups To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Local History Groups
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Local History Groups Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Local History Groups
