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Recreation and Sports Links

Farnham Common Sports Club - Hockey, cricket, squash, rugby and tennis facilities. teams for all abilities and ages, new members very welcome.
Head in the Clouds Balloon Flights - Passenger flights available over Berkshire.
Chiltern Volleyball Club - Photographs, contact information and club overview. Located in Lower Earley.
Berkshire Organic Gardeners - Promoting organic growing in the county. Talks, events, and socials. Bulk purchase of seed. Affiliated to HDRA and Soil Association.
Berkshire Junior Chess - News, fixtures and results, player grades, and photographs.
Brimpton Airfield - History of the airfield along with news and photographs. Located near Aldermaston.
Bradfield Sports Complex - Facilities include the sports complex, indoor tennis centre and a nine hole golf course. Information on facilities, membership and courses.
The Dive School - Scuba diver training and holidays, based in Mortimer.
RDTTA - The official site for the Reading and District Table Tennis Association, with news, club pages and league tables.
Reading & Mid Berkshire CAMRA - Features an online copy of the Berkshire Pub Guide plus information about the branch and its history, methods of serving beer, beer types, breweries in Berkshire, and details of the branch's campaigns.
Thames Valley Triathletes - Information on the club including training, events and a newsletter. Meet at the Bulmershe Sports Centre.
Thirtover Place - Fully equipped holiday house to accommodate 30 people, together with six camp sites, set in nine acres of countryside and owned by the Berkshire Guide Association.
Berkshire Orienteers (BKO) - Information on club, events and results with newsletter.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. -- John Tudor "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg Recreation and Sports "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. -- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Recreation and Sports "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Recreation and Sports "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Is there life before death? -- Belfast Graffito Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Recreation and Sports "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards Recreation and Sports It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Recreation and Sports "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Recreation and Sports The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Recreation and Sports Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The trouble with children is that they are not returnable. -- Quentin Crisp I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved. -- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from Recreation and Sports Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon "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." "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry Recreation and Sports Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" Recreation and Sports Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Recreation and Sports Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is the temple where they worship arrested development. -- Russell Baker I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces. -- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Recreation and Sports The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live. -- Joan Borysenko Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. -- Herbert Spencer "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Recreation and Sports The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means. -- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports
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