Marsden Silver Prize Band - History, photographs and information about the band and its members. Diary of engagements, reporting of recent events. Information about their recording, with MP3 samples.
Marsden, Heart of the South Pennines - History of the town, and a description of its attractions, events, tourist facilities, and local businesses.
Toybugs - Toyshop offering toys, games, puppets and jigsaw puzzles. Profile, illustrated catalogue with shopping cart and search.
Marsden Moor Estate - 5,585 acres of unenclosed moorland. Information about the property and the mmorland birds and plants, special events and volunteer opportunities. A National Trust property.
Marsden West Yorkshire - For sale by auction. Detached property overlooking Huddersfield Narrow Canal. Situated near Marsden in 'Summer Wine' country.
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Marsden "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Marsden
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marsden "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Marsden
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Marsden Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marsden
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Marsden blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Marsden
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Marsden Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marsden
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Marsden Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Marsden
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marsden I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Marsden
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Marsden Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Marsden
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Marsden If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marsden
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. What's new? Most of my wife. Marsden "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marsden
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Marsden The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Marsden
