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Abingdon Amblers Athletic Club - Local running club that organises the Abingdon Marathon. Includes events, bulletin board, news and contact information.
Abingdon Freestyle and Traditional Martial Arts - Teaching Kung Fu and kickboxing. Lists instructors, class information, gallery, diet tips, equipment, events and links.
North Abingdon Badminton Club - Including the club location, meetings, membership fees and contact information.
Abingdon HC - Hockey club which belongs to the MBBO Open Hockey League. Includes location, team colours and contact details.
The Abbey Sailing Club - Includes events, membership and fee information, location, picture gallery, sailing rules and contact details.
Thames Valley Youth Games 2002 - One of 43 area Olympic-style games that take place across Great Britain each year. The fourth annual event will take place in Abingdon on Saturday 1st June 2002. Includes information on the sports, news, photo gallery and contacts.
Abingdon Lawn Tennis Club - Provides information on the club, including membership and contact details, as well as an activities calendar and coaching information.
Abingdon Fencing Club - Contacts, location and times for this Oxfordshire club that meets in the Old Gaol.
White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre - Describes the centre and its facilities and srvices with membership information and employment opportunities.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. -- Jules Renard If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti Recreation and Sports Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "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) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm Recreation and Sports A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost (1874-1963) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Recreation and Sports You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way. -- Will Rogers Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence. -- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ign As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. -- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "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) To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Recreation and Sports Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations. -- Sigmund Freud What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable. -- Beaumont, Francis I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery. -- Victor Hugo The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Recreation and Sports The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Recreation and Sports When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Recreation and Sports Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Recreation and Sports We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Recreation and Sports Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Recreation and Sports It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Recreation and Sports Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender. -- Mary Buckley I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. -- W. Somerset Maugham Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. -- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
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