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The Bowmen of Guernsey - Archery in Guernsey. The Bowmen are affiliated to the Rovers Athletic Club and shoot outdoors between April and September, enjoying the use of all the club's facilities. In the winter, shooting is done indoors at Elizabeth College.
Delancey Tennis Club - News, social events and league tables for this club in the Channel Island of Guernsey.
Guernsey Swimming Club - Includes club calendar, gala reports and Master's Meet. Associated with the Amateur Swimming Association.
Beau Sejour Barracudas Swimming Club - Home of the largest competitive swimming club in Guernsey.
GTTA - Guernsey Table Tennis Association - news, facts, fixtures and stats
Guernsey Amateur Radio Callbook - Callsigns and addresses of licensed radio amateurs in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.
Colombians Hockey - Colombians hockey teams - details of fixtures, results and player profiles.
Guernsey Beekeepers' Association - Information about beginning beekeeping and current tasks. Programme of activities of the Association. Photo gallery of beekeeping and events.
Beau Sejour Leisure Centre - Civic leisure facility. Includes diary of events and membership details.
Guernsey Island Amateur Athletic Club - GIAAC organises and promotes all aspects of athletics and running in Guernsey. The club welcomes membership from ages 6 - Masters and organises regular competitions for all ages.
Guernsey Mountaineering Club - Crag information for areas around Guernsey, including a separate bouldering section with photos. Trip reports and photos. Basic contact information.
Sarnia Sword Club - Club history, photos, and practice schedule.
Sarnia Skittles Club - Committee, constitution, rules, contacts, fixtures, results, and tables. Based at the Hampshire Lodge Hotel.
Torteval Irish Wolfhounds - A light-hearted look at life with five Irish wolfhounds. Photographs, pedigrees, breed history, advice to prospective owners.
Guernsey Attic Press - Humour, politics, and satire for Guernsey.
NatWest Island Games 2003 - 10th NatWest Island held in Guernsey in the Summer of 2003. Results and forum.
Guernsey Dog Club - Kennel Club of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. Contains detail, diary of events and results section.
Jersey and Guernsey Football League Tables - Football tables and news from the Jersey Evening Post.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Recreation and Sports Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me. -- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Recreation and Sports "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Books had instant replay long before televised sports. -- Bern Williams The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards. -- Benjamin Franklin Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Recreation and Sports "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. -- Henry David Thoreau Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Recreation and Sports War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Recreation and Sports Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Recreation and Sports Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. - James Stephens Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Recreation and Sports A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 Recreation and Sports Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception. -- Harold Loukes The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is Recreation and Sports
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