Bishops Stortford Running Club - A friendly club catering for all running abilities from fun runs up to marathons and beyond
Bishops Stortford Rifle Club - Details on facilities, history of the rifle club and contact information. Indoor range and club house with automatic turning targets.
Bishops Stortford & District Pool League - Results, fixtures and tables from the local monday night pool league, including information to join, and forthcoming events.
"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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Recreation and Sports "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard 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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Recreation and Sports
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Recreation and Sports The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Recreation and Sports
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Recreation and Sports
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Recreation and Sports
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Recreation and Sports Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Recreation and Sports Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "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
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Recreation and Sports "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
