Millfolk - Details of folk club meetings at Half Moon pub in Pool-in-Wharfedale. Contact details.
Otley and District Lions Club - Information about the club and some of its activities, with details of events, membership and venue.
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Clubs and Lodges To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Clubs and Lodges
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Clubs and Lodges I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Clubs and Lodges
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Clubs and Lodges "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Clubs and Lodges
"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) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Lodges Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Clubs and Lodges
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Clubs and Lodges You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Clubs and Lodges
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Clubs and Lodges "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Clubs and Lodges
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Clubs and Lodges I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Clubs and Lodges
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Clubs and Lodges We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Clubs and Lodges
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer 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 For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Clubs and Lodges For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Clubs and Lodges
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Clubs and Lodges There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "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) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Clubs and Lodges
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Clubs and Lodges If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Clubs and Lodges
