Leicester Racecourse - Comprehensive information and fixtures for this venue situated just outside Leicester City.
Victoria Tennis Club - Players of all levels welcome, including juniors. Located in Stoneygate, south of the centre of Leicester.
Leicester Forest RFC - Rugby Union club who play in the East Midland League. Mini and Junior sections for 5-15s too.
Leicestershire Lawn Tennis Club - Large club based in Leicester. "Regular coaching sessions are held throughout the year for juniors and adults and a first class resident coach is always available for individual tuition".
Leicestershire Tenpin Bowling - Latest results and league positions of all BTBA sanctioned leagues in the county. Includes senior team results and the county super League.
Leicestershire Wildfowlers Association - Information on a broad range of pursuits in the fields of both shooting and conservation. News of events, seasons dates and membership details.
The Leicester Ivanhoe Cricket Club - Information about fixtures, results, club news and announcments. Includes a photo album and guestbook.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Recreation and Sports
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Recreation and Sports Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Recreation and Sports Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Recreation and Sports
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
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.
-- Anonymous There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Recreation and Sports 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Recreation and Sports If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Recreation and Sports
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Recreation and Sports
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Recreation and Sports Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Recreation and Sports
