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Recreation and Sports Links

Furness Cricket Club - Based in Barrow in Furness, Cumbria. Plays in the North Lancashire and Cumbria cricket league. News and events for the various teams, including juniors and women.
The Lakes Road Club - Formed in 1977 to give young cyclists in the Furness area a chance to compete in mass start cycle races. Events, results, picture gallery and cycling links.
Lakes Gliding Club - The club is based at Walney Airfield in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, has a wide range of gliders available for hire, and offers flying tuition.
RooseCote Raceway - Official Roosecote Raceway web site in Barrow-in-Furness. A short, smooth, oval tarmac track, with steep banked curves. Professional and friendly, run and raced by enthusiasts.
Furness Rugby Union Football Club - Fixtures and news of this club, founded in 1902 and one of the two Rugby Union teams in Barrow-in-Furness.
Stroke One - Golf and entertainment complex in Barrow-in-Furness.
Barrow in Furness Dog Training Club - A very active UK based agility club. Includes diary dates, results, photo gallery, K.C.rules, news, course designs, and small ads.
Furness Amateur Radio Society - Information and activities of this local club.
Millbeck Coarse Fishery - An established family run lake in Barrow-in-Furness for use by novice and experienced pleasure fisherman. Details, rules, and photos.
Barrow Amateur Swimming Club - A competitive swimming club affiliated to the ASA. Based at the Park Leisure Centre Barrow-in-Furness. History, coaching and training, news, calendar of events.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. -- Gore Vidal The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." 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(George Orson Welles) Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Recreation and Sports The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric The west wasn't won on salad. -- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev Recreation and Sports ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys? -- Douglas Coupland 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 Recreation and Sports A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Recreation and Sports Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children. -- Miriam Robbins Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Recreation and Sports 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 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. -- Walter Savage Landor In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Recreation and Sports Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer 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 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 Recreation and Sports "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu Recreation and Sports I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. -- Rita Rudner To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Recreation and Sports The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed. -- Beau Brummel Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. -- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Recreation and Sports "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. -- Ed Abbey He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole Recreation and Sports Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. -- John Kenneth Galbraith A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Recreation and Sports "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. -- Aristotle As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth. -- Albert Einstein Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Recreation and Sports "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports
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