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Chesham All Girls Band - Youth marching band (ages 9-25), from Chesham, Bucks. Play bugles and fifes in carnivals and competitions in UK and Europe. Member of TYMBA.
Chesham Octopush Underwater Hockey Club - Local club undertaking unusual underwater sport.
Chesham RUFC - Chesham Rugby Union Football Club.
Tug of War Association - Amateur organisation affiliated to the British Athletics Federation, with the object of developing Tug-of-War.
Chesham Swimming Club - Information for parents, swimmers and potential members, including fees, training times, newsletters, gala reports, club records, diary and committee contacts. The club also has a Masters section.
Bank Farm RDA - Riding for the Disabled group in Bellingdon who have developed a saddle which allows children to ride without being held. Includes portraits of the horses and a newsletter.
Ley Hill Cricket Club - Match reports, statistics, light-hearted articles and interviews.
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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between. -- David Letterman Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. -- George Santayana 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. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Recreation and Sports Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Recreation and Sports To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. -- Robert L. Stevenson The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner 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 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Recreation and Sports then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Recreation and Sports Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Recreation and Sports LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap Recreation and Sports This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. -- Senator Soaper A man's wife has more power over him than the state has. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar W Recreation and Sports When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Recreation and Sports There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Recreation and Sports Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Recreation and Sports Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Recreation and Sports "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet Recreation and Sports "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince Recreation and Sports Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Recreation and Sports There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Recreation and Sports blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Laywers, I suppose, were children once. -- Charles Lamb You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
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