Christchurch - Church of England parish, serving Liversedge. Contact details, and of worship.
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Headlands House Hotel - Information on the facilities, accommodation, and menus. Contact details.
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Liversedge There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Liversedge
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Liversedge Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Liversedge
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "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 If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Liversedge For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Liversedge
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Liversedge 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.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Liversedge
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Liversedge You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Liversedge
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Liversedge 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 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Liversedge
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Liversedge Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Liversedge
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Liversedge LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Liversedge
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Liversedge "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 Liversedge
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Liversedge It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Liversedge
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Liversedge Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Liversedge
