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Recreation and Sports Links

Carlisle Small Arms Club - Caters for target shooting disciplines ranging from air pistol up to full-bore rifle, by way of sporting clays and practical shotgun.

Carlisle Guild of Church Bellringers - The Guild encompasses just under half of the county of Cumbria. 21 towers presently ringable and several being installed, re-hung or renovated.

Carlisle Racecourse - The racecourse provides quality racing every month of the year, staging national hunt meetings from September to April and flat meetings between April and August.

Eden Golf Course - Situated along the banks of the River Eden with views which extend over the Lake District and the North Pennines. Information on the course and facilities.

Longburgh Pool - Burgh-by-Sands - A private indoor luxury heated swimming pool available for evening and weekend hire.

Carlisle & District Coarse Angling Club - Covering coarse angling in the Cumbria area. Situated at Crofton nr Thursby.

Leisuretime - Manages the City of Carlisle's leisure facilities including the Sands Centre, Carlisle Pools and outdoor sites such as Stony Holme Golf Course, Swifts Par 3 Course and Driving Range, Bitts Park Recreation Area and Sheepmount Stadium and pitches.

The Cumberland Bird of Prey Centre - Details of activity days intended to give students experience in handling many different species of birds of prey. Hawk walks, and details of film and corporate use.

Nicky Jennings - 18 year old [2002] showjumper, who is supported by a dedicated and hardworking team, training young showjumpers. Details of horses for sale.

Blackdyke Farm - Riding and competition centre, with more than 40 horses and ponies stabled in the yard. What's on, events, news and competition results.

Treks and Trails Walking Holidays - Accompanied Treks and Trails and Guided Walks in the U.K. and Europe with Dave Kay. Information on Alpine, Scottish and Lake District activites together with picture gallery.

The Sportsmedic.com - Professional physical therapy. Extended clinic hours and weekends, or even at an event.

Carlisle Water Polo And Swim Team - Water polo, mini-polo and competitive swimming club. Imnformation on membership and events.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. -- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. -- Madeleine L'Engle Recreation and Sports Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Recreation and Sports "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig. -- Anon. Recreation and Sports University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. -- Virginia Woolf A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Recreation and Sports People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer 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 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. - Frank Lloyd Wright "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Recreation and Sports We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Recreation and Sports A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace. -- William Gladstone I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous 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 Recreation and Sports Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? - H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush... -- Dawn French Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. -- Fredrich Halm Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Recreation and Sports The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. -- James McNeill Whistler Recreation and Sports Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. - Andrew Marvell blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly. -- Bhagava Gita Recreation and Sports Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of optic Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Recreation and Sports "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Recreation and Sports
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