County Durham Ice Foundation - Claims to be official website of the campaign to bring an Ice arena to the county, includes objectives, details of its members, news, a history of the organisation, plus contact details.
Golf Uk - Directory of clubs within the County including contacts, location maps and links to local accommodation.
Golf Europe - Directory of clubs within the County including contacts and course reviews.
Horse Holidays - Directory of equestrian centres within the County listing contacts and location maps .
Cloud Nine Balloon Co. - A Civil Aviation Authority approved operator, licensed for the carriage of fare paying passengers. Offer training, corporate entertainment and individual rides. Includes flight locations and online booking .
Scouting in County Durham - History, activities, facilities, and links to the associated Scout districts.
Durham University Aquatics - Partnership between the University of Durham and 11 local swimming clubs. Has links to member clubs, world records and other members' achievements and internal swimmer rankings. [Requires JavaScript]
Allotment Diary - Diary of an allotment in North Durham, with photos.
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 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 "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Recreation and Sports Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "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) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Recreation and Sports "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) My other wife is beautiful. Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Recreation and Sports
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports 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 was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "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) Recreation and Sports
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation and Sports And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Recreation and Sports
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Recreation and Sports Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports 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 Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Recreation and Sports
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "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) Recreation and Sports
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
