Ajax Orienteering and Hillrunning Club - This club, which focuses on orienteering and hilrunning but also takes in other outdoor sports, such as mountain biking and hillwalking, provides details of its activities, including discussion areas for each section of the club, events, details of club maps, contact details and links.
Rock & Ice Climbing Club - Based in Nestors Pub, Limerick. Occasional forays to the wall in UK or further afield to Scotland or the Alps are made.
Uni College Cork Mountaineering Club - This hillwalking and mountaineering club provides details of its activities, committee, news, pictures, communications facilities and songs.
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Clubs What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Clubs
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Clubs As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Clubs
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Clubs Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Clubs
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Clubs I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Clubs
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Clubs Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Clubs Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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 Clubs
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Clubs "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Clubs
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 The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Clubs "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Clubs
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Clubs "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Clubs
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "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) Clubs Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Clubs
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Clubs For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Clubs
