Charlton Athletic Supporters Club - Hastings and Bexhill branch providing contact details and information about travel arrangements and costs for home games.
The British Chess Federation - The UK Governing body and organizers of the Hastings International Chess Congress
1066 Swimmers - Gives an introduction to the club, its coaches and pools, plus extensive information for members, including links to training material. This is a competitive swimming club.
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Recreation and Sports "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "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
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Recreation and Sports "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Recreation and Sports
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Recreation and Sports
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling 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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Recreation and Sports You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Recreation and Sports Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Recreation and Sports
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Recreation and Sports An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Recreation and Sports
