1st Stotfold Scout Group - Describes the organisation, its sections and their activities with meeting times and news.
Stotfold Conservative Club - Lists forthcoming events and facilities which include function hall, petanque court and a children's play area.
Stotfold Model Car Club - Radio controlled model car off-road racing. Profile, news, photo gallery and information about the cars and their drivers.
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
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-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Recreation and Sports
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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" You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Recreation and Sports Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Recreation and Sports That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "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) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Recreation and Sports
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Recreation and Sports It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh 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 "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Recreation and Sports
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Recreation and Sports
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 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Recreation and Sports
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
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-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi 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
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Recreation and Sports "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Recreation and Sports
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Recreation and Sports
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Recreation and Sports There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Recreation and Sports
