Airienteers - Information on orienteering in Wharfedale and Airedale. Details of club membership and organisation, news of events and results.
Cats Protection Wharfe Valley Branch - Lost and found postings, and information about the branch, membership, contact details, and a newsletter.
Wharfedale Naturalists - Programme of meetings and events, contact details, plus information on publications.
A Practice History - History of a medical practice in Otley (Wharfedale) and Bramhope (outside Leeds). Includes photos.
The Blue Barn - Suppliers to trade and the general public of animal and pet foods and accessories. Information about the company and contact details.
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Wharfedale The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Wharfedale
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Wharfedale Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Wharfedale
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Wharfedale I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Wharfedale
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Wharfedale I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Wharfedale
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm 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 Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wharfedale "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Wharfedale
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Wharfedale "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Wharfedale
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Wharfedale These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Wharfedale
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Wharfedale "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Wharfedale
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Wharfedale The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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 Wharfedale
The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Wharfedale I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Wharfedale
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Wharfedale "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Wharfedale
