Ashton-under-Lyne Swimming Club - Has training times, joining instructions and details of club's Open meets. This competitive club also teaches swimming and runs an annual Biathlon/Triathlon event.
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 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Recreation and Sports
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Recreation and Sports
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde 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? Recreation and Sports
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, 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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Recreation and Sports
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Recreation and Sports Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Recreation and Sports Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Recreation and Sports
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Recreation and Sports Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Recreation and Sports
