Upper Hopton - Personal site containing weather statistics and related links, photographs and information about the village of Upper Hopton.
Mirfield - A Second Look - A collection of photographs of Mirfield over the last century, with present day pictures for comparison. Includes historical information, maps and quizzes.
Mirfield News and Views - Local news, views and events diary. Includes information on the history of Mirfield, with photos.
Hopton Pantomime Group - Details of its activities with current and past productions, cast and box office information.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "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 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Mirfield Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Mirfield
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Mirfield Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig 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 Mirfield
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 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. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Mirfield The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Mirfield
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Mirfield 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Mirfield
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Mirfield "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Mirfield
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Mirfield "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Mirfield
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Mirfield "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Mirfield
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Mirfield 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 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Mirfield
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Mirfield Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Mirfield
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Mirfield There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Mirfield
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Mirfield I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Mirfield
