Welwyn Garden Swimming Club - Includes background on the club, session times, events diary, competition reports and lists of teachers. The club offers teaching, competitive swimming and life-saving.
The Welwyn Hatfield Netball League - Fixtures, results, joining details, umpires, coaches, netball history, club committee, league information, tours, and links.
Longcroft Allotment Association - Information about this Welwyn Garden City association, its history and its activities. Online tenancy agreement. Includes monthly tips.
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-- Clarence Darrow If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
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-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier The west wasn't won on salad.
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-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Recreation and Sports
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Recreation and Sports The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Recreation and Sports Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Recreation and Sports
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Recreation and Sports
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Recreation and Sports If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
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-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Recreation and Sports
