Broadstairs Watergala - Includes event history, fundraising diary and this year's programme.
Isle of Thanet Railway Society - Located at Broadstairs Railway Station. Includes club projects, events, photos and contacts.
Revolution Skate Park - Indoor skate park and shop for inline skating, skateboarding and BMX riding. Also features a climbing wall. Includes news, opening times and entry fees.
Broadstairs Sailing Club - Offers sailing on the English Channel. Includes details of sailing and social events, membership information and notices to members, plus photos.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Recreation and Sports A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Recreation and Sports
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Recreation and Sports We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Recreation and Sports
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Recreation and Sports Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Recreation and Sports After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Recreation and Sports
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Recreation and Sports The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Recreation and Sports
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Recreation and Sports "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Recreation and Sports
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Recreation and Sports "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Recreation and Sports
