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Society and Culture Links

Ackworth Old Scholars Association - Events listing, e-directory, and membership details.
Rotary Club of Wakefield - Information on meetings, membership, projects, and their May Day Gala in Thornes Park. Contact details, and links to Wakefield Council website.
Wakefield Advanced Motorists - Information on courses, events, membership details and benefits, work with young drivers. Also includes links to national organisation, road and community safety.
People and Dogs Society - Advice on caring for dogs and puppies, and information on the charity and its fundraising activities to promote responsible dog ownership.
Wakefield RISC-OS Computer Club - Information about the group, details of past and upcoming events, an online membership information request form, and a summary of their PD library.
Voluntary Action Wakefield District - Provides support for community and voluntary organisations in Wakefield and Pontefract. Information about services offered and projects.
Wrenthorpe Community Association - Information about the community, including listings of community organisations, events, recreation, businesses.
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. -- Dale Carnegie "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Society and Culture Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Society and Culture The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Society and Culture The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- Jerry Olson Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Society and Culture Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at 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. -- Crow Society and Culture 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley 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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Society and Culture There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We do not remember days; we remember moments. -- Anonymous When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society and Culture Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song He who laughs last didn't get it. -- Helen Giangregorio "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Society and Culture "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 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 Society and Culture I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? -- Gertrude Stein, dying words Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Society and Culture If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams, dying words Society and Culture You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch 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 Society and Culture What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA 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 closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Society and Culture Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. -- Lyn Karol Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Society and Culture Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Society and Culture America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole. -- Bobcat Goldthwait The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge 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 Society and Culture The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres Society and Culture True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Society and Culture Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's life The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. -- Richard Strauss, on conducting Society and Culture A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Society and Culture
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