Birkenhead Athletic Club - Participating in road races, multi-terrain and cross country events. Lists forthcoming events, results, club news and running links.
Bebington Hockey Club - Information about local hockey teams with contact details, news and results.
Wirral Athletic Club - Includes information about activities, a newsletter and membership details.
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Recreation and Sports Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Recreation and Sports
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Recreation and Sports
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 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Recreation and Sports "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports 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 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Recreation and Sports
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Recreation and Sports
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Recreation and Sports Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Recreation and Sports
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Recreation and Sports "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
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Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Recreation and Sports "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
