21st Northampton Boys Brigade - Based at Carey Baptist Church, Moulton. Meet on Monday nights from 6 - 9pm in 3 different age groups.
Scouting in Far Cotton - Covering the history and up to date information for scouts in the area.
Northampton Archery Club - Information on upcoming shoots, location and committee members, as well as a photo gallery. One of the coaches can use British sign language.
Red Rose Archers - Information on the club, including location and a calendar of events. Results, a photo gallery and a links page.
St David's Garden Village - A Northampton allotment association, whose site is under threat from the council. Information about their campaign, and their gardening activities.
Abington Camera Club - Photographs and information about membership, meetings and events.
GP Karting - Indoor karting. Describes its facilities and services and includes a booking form.
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The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
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-- George R. Kirkpatrick Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Albert Einstein Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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-- Benjamin Franklin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports That government is best which governs least.
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-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Recreation and Sports I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Recreation and Sports "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Recreation and Sports
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "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) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Recreation and Sports
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Recreation and Sports "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Recreation and Sports "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Recreation and Sports