Riding for the Disabled Association, Stanford - Leicestershire group offers hints for helpers and tick sheets for the riding grade badges. Activities range from competing in the Special Olympics to riding with music.
The Charnwood Imaging Group - A group of photographers, who share information. Digital and traditional examples, newsletter, guides, tips and contact information.
Loughborough Town Swimming Club - A competitive age-group with active masters section. News, training times, fixtures, results and club records.
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Recreation and Sports
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Recreation and Sports "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports
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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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. 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 A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Recreation and Sports
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu 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, He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Recreation and Sports The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Recreation and Sports
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary May you never leave your marriage alive. Recreation and Sports My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Recreation and Sports The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Recreation and Sports
