Bisham Abbey National Sports Centre - Available for community use through to elite sportsmen and women. Also available for non-sporting events.
Quad Club - Health and fitness club. Details of facilities, membership, location and photo gallery.
Marlow Camera Club - Includes diary dates, where and when they meet, joining information and gallery of members' work.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Recreation and Sports Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Recreation and Sports One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Recreation and Sports
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Recreation and Sports
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Recreation and Sports
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Recreation and Sports
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Recreation and Sports Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Recreation and Sports
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
