Crondall Petanque Club - One of the largest clubs in the UK playing the addictive game of petanque (or French Boules). They are situated in the Southern Region on the Hampshire/Surrey border and welcome new members young and old.
Gym and Tonic - Gym and fitness club offering weight training, sunbed and beauty treatments. Profile, services and information about membership.
Hart Swimming Club - Has membership information, including fees, fixture diary, event reports, training times and details of the Hart Open meet.
Fleet Pub Crawl - Has a map and description of the pubs on the Fleet Pub Crawl which takes place every summer.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Recreation and Sports
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Recreation and Sports
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Recreation and Sports
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Recreation and Sports "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Recreation and Sports
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Recreation and Sports Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
wastes to Third Wo The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Recreation and Sports
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 "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) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "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) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Recreation and Sports your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) 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 Recreation and Sports Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
