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Gone Fishing - Fishing information, including fish, tackle, photos, and boats.
Castletown Hockey Club - A field hockey team based in Castletown. Includes photos and scores.
The Venture Centre - An outdoor activity centre. Includes bookings form and photos.
Scout Association - Isle of Man - Information about the Scout movement on the Island, with information about each group.
Manx Grand Prix - Official website with the latest news, views and reports for the Isle of Man MGP.
Southern 100 Racing - A motorcycle racing event. Includes an entry form, records, history, and photos.
Duke Track Days - Car and bike track experiences. Includes latest news, photos, circuit maps and prices.
Manx Model Flyers - Includes an event diary and photos.
Manx Athletics - Statistics and news for Manx athletics fans.
Isle of Man Sea Cadets Corp - Includes links and contact information.
Port St Mary Golf Club - Latest news, handicaps, results and general gossip. Site includes photos of the course.
Young Magicians of Mann - Includes news, contact information, show times, and tricks.
Isle of Man Squash Racket Association - Information about squash on the Isle of Man.
Peel Viking Longboat Races - The official site for these annual games held in Peel.
Roland Wescott Tackle Co. - Suppliers of game and sea fishing tackle. Guided flyfishing holidays.
Isle of Man Investment Club - For Manx residents who are interested in investing in the stock market.
I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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 The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Recreation and Sports Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Recreation and Sports "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Recreation and Sports "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. -- Indira Gandhi "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Recreation and Sports To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward. -- Margaret Fairless Barber "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Recreation and Sports Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports May you never leave your marriage alive. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Recreation and Sports The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. - Henry Kissinger "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha 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 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel Recreation and Sports Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne Study men, not historians. -- Harry Truman The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Recreation and Sports Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. -- Al Capone It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje 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 Recreation and Sports Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things. -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Recreation and Sports We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities. -- Thomas Jefferson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't cha However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Recreation and Sports
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