Yeadon On-Line - On-line community directory of information and resources for this village NW of Leeds.
Parish Church of St John the Evangelist - Church of England parish serving the Yeadon community. Information about services and events. Devotional material and virtual tour of the church building.
Aireborough RUFC - The official web site with news, photographs and results. The club is located at Nunroyd Park, Yeadon, and play in the Yorkshire League Division Five.
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Yeadon Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Yeadon
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Yeadon There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Yeadon
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Yeadon "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "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 Yeadon
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Yeadon "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Yeadon
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Yeadon Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Yeadon
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Yeadon "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Yeadon
"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Yeadon That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Yeadon
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Yeadon I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Yeadon
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Yeadon Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Yeadon
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens 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 A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Yeadon Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Yeadon
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Yeadon Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Yeadon
