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Recreation and Sports Links

Truro Diocesan Guild of Ringers - Details of Guild Towers and their practice nights, some methods to try, and general information about bell ringing in the area.

Truro Fencing Club - News, results, and the basics of fencing.

Truro Cycling Club - News items of interest to cycle club members. Racing, time trials, touring and social events.

Truro College Diving School - Describes the PADI courses available including part time and residential options.

City of Truro Sea Cadets - T.S. Pellew - Uniformed youth organisation for 12-18 year olds. Information and details about this unit, including local history, activities and its Marine Cadet Detachment.

Truro Airfield - Offers training, hangerage and pleasure trips in a Cessna. Location details by road and air.

Truro Bridge Club - Competitions, results and news.

Truro and District Canine Society - Dog shows, matches, training, photographs, results, games, online schedule.

Truro Rugby Football Club - Playing opportunities, fixtures, league, facilities and location.

Truro Lawn Tennis Club - Information about the courts, location, membership and social events.

Trewithen Garden - Early Georgian house - its name means "House of the Trees". Information on the gardens and their history, map. Details of nurseries and of visitor facilities.

Duchy Divers - Diving club. Information on pool sessions, diving trips and training.

Bujinkan Truro Dojo - Self-defence techniques from the 9 schools of the bujinkan martial arts. Class time and location.

Truro Cricket Club - News, results, fixtures, social events, photographs and contact details.

Camills Farm Stud - Studfarm with a selection of warmblood sports horses and an eventing syndicate.

Truro City Swimming Club - Includes joining information, fees, training times and other news, but infrequently updated. The club welcomes anyone able to swim 50m and has Junior, Senior, Masters and National level swimmers.

Paws 4 Fun - Reward based training and behavioural advice on all aspects of puppy, Kennel Club and agility training. Details of classes in Truro, contacts and newsletter.

Barwick Equestrian - Professional working yard offering breaking and schooling of horses, teaching and holiday livery. Facilities, services, for sale and diary dates.

Truro Hash House Harriers - A group who organise runs and after run fun on a weekly basis.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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" Recreation and Sports There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- André Maurois "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Recreation and Sports In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn We must become the change we want to see. -- Gandhi Recreation and Sports Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from 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) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) Recreation and Sports Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. -- Joan Crawford You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Recreation and Sports Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Recreation and Sports May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Recreation and Sports You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde Recreation and Sports Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. -- E. B. White Recreation and Sports Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. -- Thomas Szasz Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -- Ben Hecht True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. -- Friedrich Nietzsch Recreation and Sports "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. -- Ellen DeGeneres "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright Recreation and Sports Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. -- Charles Caleb Colton Recreation and Sports People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Recreation and Sports "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste. -- David Bissonette Recreation and Sports
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