Ossett Albion Ladies AFC - News of the teams, games and fixtures, with a history, photos and membership details. They play in the Yorkshire and Humberside League First Division.
Ossett Centre Arts Group - Club for artists of all ages working in 2 dimensional media. Regular meetings and exhibitions. Picture gallery.
Chantry Wine Circle - Local group of amateur winemakers. Includes information about the group, its members and meetings, recipes and links.
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Recreation and Sports I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Recreation and Sports
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Success is just a matter of attitude.
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the boss."
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Recreation and Sports
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Recreation and Sports "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Recreation and Sports
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Recreation and Sports 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Recreation and Sports Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports
