Cotham Park Tennis Club - The club welcomes players of all standards. It has four all-weather courts (two hard courts and two polymeric courts) with overhead lighting on all courts.
Bristol Central Tennis Club - A community based club run on a voluntary basis: facilities, news, membership information and links.
Bristol Lawn Tennis and Squash Club - News, events, membership information, facilities and contact details for long established Redland organisation.
Bristol & Bath Tennis Club - Playing the ancient game of Real Tennis on one of the few modern courts in England: news, history, events, fixtures, membership information.
Clifton Lawn Tennis Club - Offering seven natural and artificial grass courts of which four are floodlit.
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Tennis and Badminton Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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-- Albert Einstein Tennis and Badminton
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
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-- Aristotle If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Tennis and Badminton "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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-- W.S. Gilbert The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
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-- PARKINSON'S LAW Tennis and Badminton
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
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-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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really Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Tennis and Badminton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Tennis and Badminton
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Tennis and Badminton The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Tennis and Badminton
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Tennis and Badminton In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Tennis and Badminton
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero 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 No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
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- H. G. Wells Tennis and Badminton
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
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moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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