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Wakefield and District Family History Society - Information on the group, their meetings, and membership details. Includes on-line magazine, list of publications, access to local sources, and links to national resources.
Wrenthorpe History Web - History of Wrenthorpe including Robin Hood's connection with the area, plus a large quantity of information about the notorious "Prophet" John Wroe who lived there.
Sandal Slide Show - Photographic slide show of the town of Sandal in Wakefield.
Wakefield Historical Society - Information on the society, their activities (a lecture programme, and conservation work), and their publications. Listing of members' interests and research.
Wakefield History Site - Joseph G Court's history and pictures of Wakefield, the cathedral, and nearby communities. Includes scanned copies of G H Crowther's History of Wakefield (1886), and T Baines' Yorkshire Past and Present (1870's), as downloadable PDF files.
Twixt Aire and Calder - An online archive of images of Wakefield and district past and present: photographs, maps, memorabilia, prints.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. -- H. L. Mencken I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat. -- Michael McShane Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb History Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous History Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) History There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. -- Albert Schweitzer We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw History "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family. -- Navaho saying They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning History Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'. - Friedrich Nietzsche Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. -- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. History There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger History I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester History The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola "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." Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha History The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. History Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen History Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William History More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi History 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 "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler History No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. History Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) History With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. -- Abraham Lincoln "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) History Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill 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 History Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess History I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. -- Unknown author, Levitating T The more I know about people, the better I like my dog. -- Mark Twain History blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. -- Buckminster History
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