Andover Round Table Web Site - The social club for young men aged 18 to 45. Details about the club, membership information, diary dates and fund raising events.
Andover Cricket Club - Founded in 1865, this team supports five senior sides as well as the colts. Provides information about the group, fixtures and league tables, archive photos, a forum and details of their weekly magazine.
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-- Mark Twain "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 "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Recreation and Sports "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Paulo Freire Recreation and Sports
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-- John G. Pollard By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Recreation and Sports I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Recreation and Sports
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Recreation and Sports [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Margaret Atwood All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Recreation and Sports When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
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-- George Bernard Shaw The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous "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) Recreation and Sports If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Recreation and Sports
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
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future crimes.
-- Prince Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Recreation and Sports "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
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"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Recreation and Sports A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Recreation and Sports I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Recreation and Sports "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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