National Coal Mining Museum - The museum gives the visitor the opportunity to go 450ft down one of the oldest working mines in England. History, information on events and facilities, and visitor details.
Yorkshire Sculpture Park - Description of an impressive open-air gallery of sculpture. Details of permanent collection and visiting artists. Access and contact information.
Wakefield Museums and Arts - Wakefield Council's Museums and Arts section - links to further information on museums, castles, public halls, art galleries, arts development and a database of local artists.
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Museums We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Marriage is a rest period between romances. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Museums
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Museums Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University 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 Museums
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Museums "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Museums
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Museums "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "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) Museums
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Museums "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 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Museums
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "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) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Museums Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Museums "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Museums
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Museums
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Museums Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Museums
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Museums To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Museums
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Museums Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Museums
