Sussex Ornithological Society - Provides a focal point in the county for all those interested in birding. Includes news and recent sightings, search, Brighton Peregrines nest box web cam, species status and records and contact details.
Mariners of Bewl - Supports and encourages the integration of disabled people with able bodied people through the medium and enjoyment of sailing. Includes photos and membership information.
Friars Gate Archers - Archery club, with details of location, activities and contacts.
Helen's Swimming School - Offers aquafit, swimming, snorkelling and synchronised swimming using pools at Crowborough and Mayfield. Describes its services with enquiry form and newsletter archive.
1st Beckley Guides - Information about the Guide and Brownie units, with news and photos.
Bewl Water Canoe Club - Offering canoeing at the Southern Water reservoir. Includes meeting times, photos, and related links.
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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-- Malcolm Forbes 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 Recreation and Sports
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Recreation and Sports "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Recreation and Sports
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Recreation and Sports
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 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Recreation and Sports "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Recreation and Sports
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Recreation and Sports "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. 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) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- Rebecca West, Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Recreation and Sports
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Recreation and Sports
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Recreation and Sports
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Recreation and Sports In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Recreation and Sports
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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