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Recreation and Sports Links

Penang Tai Chi - Tai Chi Chuan is an ancient art of gentle relaxed body movement. Classes are run every week.

The Harpenden Gym Club - Providing co-ordination agility and confidence for 2-5 Year Olds.

Verulam Cycling Club - Includes details of club runs and other events in Hertfordshire.

City of St Albans Amateur Swimming Club - Gives club news, joining information, fees, session times, committee notes and contacts and a competition diary. Caters for a wide range of ages and abilities.

Batchwood Leisure Centre - Health and fitness club offering golf, tennis, squash and creche facilities. Profile, activities, opening times and prices.

The Royal National Rose Society - Describes the organisation and membership with events, links to display gardens, pictures of roses, and other things useful to rose growers.

Westminster Lodge Leisure Centre - Describes its facilities with opening times and prices.

Watercress Wildlife Association - St Albans first wildlife conservation area, opened in 1992, on the site of former commercial watercress beds. This is now a local haven for flora and fauna, and for the enjoyment of local people.

Colney Heath Ju-Jitsu Club - Martial arts club for persons aged 14+. History and terminology of the sport, dojo rules, photo gallery and contact details.

Old Albanian RFC - The top junior rugby club in the area around St Albans with a strong juniors section as well as consistently running 5 senior sides. London Division 2 North league.

St Albans Fencing Club - The fencing club is situated at the new sports hall at Marlborough School. Fencing Thursdays 8-10pm and usually meet afterwards at the pub. Beginners and visitors are very welcome.

Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports "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 Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree. -- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Recreation and Sports A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Recreation and Sports "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Recreation and Sports "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Recreation and Sports We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg Recreation and Sports If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Recreation and Sports Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell [text_end] [text_start] A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Recreation and Sports The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Recreation and Sports In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. -- Paul Eldridge >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times. -- Jonson, Ben Recreation and Sports Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. - Friedrich Nietzsche He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les Brown Recreation and Sports Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. -- Anonymous Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Recreation and Sports Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. -- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. -- Will Rogers What's new? Most of my wife. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Recreation and Sports "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Recreation and Sports When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again. -- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "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) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports
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