Northwest Parachute Centre - The largest Parachute Centre in the North West, at Flookburgh, exists to offer people with no previous parachuting experience the opportunity to make a parachute descent.
National School of Falconry - Various courses and hunting days are offered by the school, from basic bird of prey association days to advanced falconry courses and from a days rabbit hawking to hunting holidays at Grouse with falcons.
Lakeland Orienteering Club - Details of the clubs history, fixtures, results, and archives of past events.
The Fishing Hut - Provides private trout fly fishing, tackle hire and tuition. Details of rods, reels, lines and flies stocked.
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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assess randomi Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Recreation and Sports "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Recreation and Sports
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Recreation and Sports
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Recreation and Sports The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 Recreation and Sports
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Recreation and Sports "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Recreation and Sports
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Recreation and Sports
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Recreation and Sports If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Recreation and Sports
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Recreation and Sports
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Recreation and Sports To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
