Swillington Link - Local news, photographs, and history from a village SE of Leeds. Information on the Groundwork Trust in S Leeds, and pictures of Swillington Gala.
St Mary's Church - Church of England parish in what was a Yorkshire mining village. Information about the services, and the building. Contact details.
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Swillington Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Swillington
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Swillington Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Swillington
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Swillington Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Swillington
"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) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Swillington The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Swillington
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 I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay 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 Swillington The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Swillington
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Swillington The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Swillington
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Swillington "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Swillington
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Swillington The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Swillington
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Swillington Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates 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 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Swillington
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "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 Swillington We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Swillington
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Swillington And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Swillington
