Epping Forest Mountain Bike Club - Information about the club and its activities, how to join and a collection of cycling related links.
Epping Horizons Petanque Club - Sections on the club, events, rules, coaching and a quiz. Herts and Essex League, Eastern Region.
The Essex Shooting School - Offers clay shooting and training plus fly-fishing. Overview, available courses, bookings, news and information about its shop.
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Recreation and Sports
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
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-- Aldous Huxley The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Recreation and Sports Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Recreation and Sports The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Recreation and Sports When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Recreation and Sports
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Recreation and Sports Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Recreation and Sports
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
