Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing - Description, history and photos of past events, and a programme for this year's.
Broadbent Stanley Machine Tools Ltd - Manufacturers of machine tools including CNC lathes, deep hole borers, milling machines, variable torque drilling and tapping units. Includes information about the company and its products, and contacts.
Oasis Family Centre - Village hall offering rooms for hire. Profile, facilities and regular activities.
E.P.S. Hire Centre Ltd - Providing an extensive range of plant, access and small tools at competitive prices. Sowerby Bridge.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Sowerby Bridge "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Sowerby Bridge
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Sowerby Bridge The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Sowerby Bridge
"If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Sowerby Bridge In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Sowerby Bridge
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Sowerby Bridge Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sowerby Bridge
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Sowerby Bridge Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Sowerby Bridge
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) 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 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Sowerby Bridge "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Sowerby Bridge
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Sowerby Bridge Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Sowerby Bridge
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... 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 "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Sowerby Bridge Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Sowerby Bridge
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sowerby Bridge I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Sowerby Bridge
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Sowerby Bridge I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 Sowerby Bridge
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Sowerby Bridge If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Sowerby Bridge
