Avon Hangliding and Paragliding Club - Details of the club and all the latest news of the local flying scene. Some of the articles from the monthly magazine Nova are online.
Bristol and Gloucestershire Gliding Club - One of Britain's top six gliding clubs, the BGGC flies from a very scenic airfield - a mile long grass field on the edge of the Cotswold escarpment.
Popular Flying Association - Bristol Strut - This group actively promotes sport aviation of all kinds, and encourages home-building and group ownership to keep recreational flying affordable. Includes a monthly newsletter.
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Flying He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 Flying
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "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) Flying People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Flying
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Flying Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "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) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Flying
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken >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 Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Flying You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Flying
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain 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 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Flying There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Flying
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Flying The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Flying
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 Flying An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Flying
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Flying I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Flying
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Flying The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Flying
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Flying There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Flying
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Flying People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Flying
