Physio and Therapies - A Chartered Physiotherapy specialising in spinal physiotherapy, sports injuries, womens health, reflexology, chiropody and podiatry services.
Todmorden Community Website - Latest news and issues, discussion group, and a photograph of the town on a sunny day!
Todmorden Discussion Forum - A local site concerning the interests of Todmorden. News, competitions, links, online discussion forum and photographs.
Longfield Equestrian Centre - BHS and ABRS approved equestrian centre, set amongst the Pennine Hills. Includes facilities available and details of services.
Todmorden Orchestra - Dates and programmes for forthcoming concerts and concert reviews. Includes information for new orchestra members.
The Lumbutts Centre - Group accomodation for 10-30 persons. Profile, facilities and history with photo gallery and directions.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Todmorden "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Todmorden
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Todmorden "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Todmorden
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Todmorden It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Todmorden
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Todmorden Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W 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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Todmorden
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Todmorden Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Todmorden
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Todmorden 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 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Todmorden
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Todmorden Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Todmorden
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Todmorden When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Todmorden
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Todmorden "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Todmorden
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Todmorden There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Todmorden
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Todmorden Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Todmorden
