Ely Roller Hockey Club - Information about non-contact club, including photographs, how to join, history and links.
Ely Runners - Club based at the city's Paradise sports centre. Provides facts on their two major annual events, together with a photo gallery, contacts and race results.
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 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Recreation and Sports
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 I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald 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 Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Recreation and Sports
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "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) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Recreation and Sports "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Recreation and Sports
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Recreation and Sports Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Recreation and Sports Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Recreation and Sports
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Recreation and Sports "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Recreation and Sports
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Recreation and Sports
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
