Broadway & Failsworth Life Saving Club - The club offers all RLSS lifesaving and lifeguarding courses. Provides club photographs, meetings, first aid, safety and a chat room.
Oldham Photographic Society - History since foundation in 1867, especially the early years, location, program, special interest groups and pictures by members.
Mark Lord Swim Coach - Has pictures, results, meet reports and event diary related to Oldham Metro Swimming Club. Also has contact details for this swimming coach who is based in Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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apparently based Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber 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 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Recreation and Sports
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Recreation and Sports "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Recreation and Sports
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "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) Recreation and Sports If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Recreation and Sports
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "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) Recreation and Sports
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Recreation and Sports
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-- Abigail Van Buren 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Recreation and Sports To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Recreation and Sports Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Recreation and Sports
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Recreation and Sports No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports
