Bedfordshire Health and Fitness - Directory of sports and leisure clubs in the county. Includes links to individual clubs if known.
Sporting Targets - Offers clay pigeon shooting, off road driving and corporate hospitality. Located at Risely.
Jaguar Drivers Club - Bedfordshire Branch - Includes information about the organisation and its regular monthly pub meetings, events, news and committee. Also has a photo gallery of cars.
Bedfordshire County Scouts - Lists details of activities, groups in the area, camp sites, training, news and how to join.
Blackthorns Sun Club - Bedfordshire's only naturist club, some single naturists admitted. Lists facilities, about the club, general details and contact information.
Anokhi Burmese - Cat breeders. Includes illustrated lists of pedigree cats.
Miletree Boarding Cattery - Describes the cattery and its facilities with photographs. Also includes information about and photos of their cat and dog and sheep breeding.
Kathy Brown's Garden - At Stevington. Provides illustrated description and clickable plan with photographs. Includes location map and open day diary.
Ye Three Fyshes - Community-led buy out attempt to save a historic public house in Turvey. Details on company prospectus and progress, plus contact details and information for potential investors.
Heron Lake Carp Fishery - Profile and information for members of the syndicate to get the latest news about the venue and view the gallery of catches. Includes application details for prospective members, and contacts for the lake north of Wyboston.
Bedfordshire Guiding - Includes program information for Guides, Brownies, Rainbows and adult helpers.
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports "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) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Recreation and Sports Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Recreation and Sports I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "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-) Recreation and Sports Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
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-- Shakespeare, William Recreation and Sports
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Albert Einstein Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
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- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Recreation and Sports
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Recreation and Sports The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Recreation and Sports
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Recreation and Sports Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Recreation and Sports
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Recreation and Sports