Oakdene Athletic Football Club - For junior players (10-17). News, history, photographs, player profiles, manager, league table, reports, awards night and players wanted. Established in 1998 in Billingham.
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All Style Karate Academy - Information about the club anfd its activities with pictures and opening times.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Recreation and Sports I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Recreation and Sports "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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Recreation and Sports
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Recreation and Sports
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Recreation and Sports Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Recreation and Sports
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Recreation and Sports
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Recreation and Sports
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Recreation and Sports "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
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