Rothwell Temperance Band - Information about the band, its members, performances and recordings. Events diary, contact details, and downloadable scores.
Rothwell Entertainments Committee - Information on their organisation for May Day and Carnival, and a history of Rothwell entertainments.
Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell - Information about services, people and groups in this church south of Leeds. Links to Rothwell organisations, and the Church of England diocese.
Avantifix, - Provides fixing solutions to the construction industry. Largest Spit stockist in the UK.
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 When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Rothwell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Rothwell
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Rothwell Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Rothwell
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Rothwell If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Rothwell
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Rothwell I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Rothwell
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Rothwell A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Rothwell
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Rothwell Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Rothwell
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Rothwell Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Rothwell
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Rothwell Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Rothwell
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Rothwell I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Rothwell
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Rothwell Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Rothwell
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Rothwell Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Rothwell
