Darenth Table Tennis Club - Plays in the Bromley, Sevenoaks and Tonbridge leagues. Includes newsletter, events and contact information.
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Dunton Green "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Dunton Green
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Dunton Green "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Dunton Green
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Dunton Green "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Dunton Green
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Dunton Green I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Dunton Green
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "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) If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dunton Green "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Dunton Green
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Dunton Green I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Dunton Green
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Dunton Green "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Dunton Green
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Dunton Green Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Dunton Green
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Dunton Green I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Dunton Green
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Dunton Green Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Dunton Green
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Dunton Green A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Dunton Green
