Fairlands Youth FC - Club rules and guides with events, achievements, links and gallery.
Stevenage WATCH - Junior section of the Wildlife Trust. Contacts and activity details.
Fairlands Valley Spartans - Athletics club, with events, league tables, entry forms, gallery and trophy cabinet.
Dolphin Swimming Club - Dedicated to the disabled and mentally handicapped, the site gives contacts, aims and facilities.
Stevenage Sports Council - A voluntary body promoting sports in the town. Objectives, news, information about funding and a list of member clubs.
Bedwell Rangers Football Club - News, events, information, teams, directions, and links. The club provides matches and coaching for over 250 local children.
Stevenage Swimming Club - News, fixture list, training schedule, shop price list, joining information and fees.
Stevenage Sword - Folk dancing group with explanation of styles used.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Recreation and Sports When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Recreation and Sports
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Recreation and Sports blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Recreation and Sports
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Recreation and Sports Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Recreation and Sports "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Recreation and Sports It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Recreation and Sports
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Recreation and Sports Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Recreation and Sports
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Recreation and Sports If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Recreation and Sports People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Recreation and Sports Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
