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The Avon Schools Orienteering Association - Provides information, results, fixtures, newcomers section, associated links and guest book.

Bristol Orienteering Klub - Club membership, results, league and event details, organiser's manual and information about local courses.

Avon Outdoor Activities Club - Engages in climbing, caving, skiing, biking, and swimming. Includes activity pages, schedule, photos, and membership information.

Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison 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 Outdoors When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands. -- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves Outdoors Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Outdoors "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Outdoors Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them. -- Anonymous The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 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 Outdoors There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Outdoors It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Mark Twain I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Outdoors "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Outdoors The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn' Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Outdoors "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Outdoors "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Outdoors In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb Outdoors Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers 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 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. -- John Webster "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Outdoors We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins If a man does his best, what else is there? - General George S. Patton Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy Outdoors "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Outdoors If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. -- Aristotle Onassis Old soldiers never die, they just fade away. -- General Douglas MacArthur I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins Outdoors Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. -- John F. Kennedy It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken Outdoors I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Outdoors "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Outdoors If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. -- Thomas Szasz The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool. -- Voltaire Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch Outdoors
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