Black Swan Sailing Club - Dinghy sailing, canoeing and windsurfing. Details of membership, boat hire and training courses.
Hurst Bowling Club - Founded in 1747. Features contact information, club history, fixture list and newsletter.
Hurst Horse Show and Country Fayre - Annual gymkhana and village fayre. Schedule of horse events, and details of other attractions and facilities.
Hurst Village Halls - Two halls and a meeting room for hire. Details of facilities, charges and location.
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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Recreation and Sports It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Recreation and Sports The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "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) Recreation and Sports In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Recreation and Sports
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Recreation and Sports
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports
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 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Recreation and Sports
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Recreation and Sports
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Recreation and Sports Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Recreation and Sports The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
