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Silsden Town Brass Band - Information on the band, membership, practice sessions, and an events calendar. Also includes a short tour of Silsden and links to local interest web-sites.
Silsden.net - Includes local news and views, information, travel and weather.
Silsden Boats - Information on canal boating holidays in the Yorkshire Dales on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal. Details of a fleet to 2- to 10-berth narrow boats, routes, attractions, and e-mail availability check.
Edwin Bottomley - A collection of his Yorkshire dialect poems, in memory of a Silsden poet who died in 1997.
Silsden Fire Brigade - An unofficial site about the Fire Brigade, fire safety and first aid.
Silsden Golf Club - 18 hole course offering details of the memberships, green fees, club news and history of the course.
Pied Piper - Pre-school nursery in St James' Church Hall, Silsden. Information about their provision, with details of costs and for contact.
Inkweaver - Web design packages including search engine submission with optional domain registration and hosting.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Silsden Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Silsden Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. -- English Proverb Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. -- Tom Robbins Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. -- Oscar Wilde A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Silsden With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. -- Oscar Wilde There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle Silsden "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and Silsden There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Silsden 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Silsden "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Silsden Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Silsden "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Silsden "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past. -- Maurice Maeterlink Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Silsden Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Silsden "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton Silsden "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Silsden Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Silsden "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night. -- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Silsden 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Silsden The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Silsden Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Silsden Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Silsden I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Silsden A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine 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 I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Silsden
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