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Recreation and Sports Links

Oxford Conservation Volunteers - A group that does practical conservation work, in and around Oxford, every Sunday.

W.R. Harvey and Co. - Antique dealer specializing in fine antique English furniture, clocks and decorative items.

North Oxford Golf Club - An 18 hole golf course within parkland setting on the outskirts of Oxford. With dlubhouse, bar, dining room, meeting room with PGA qualified professional and shop.

Oxford City Go Club - Club for playing the oriental game. Includes meeting times and locations and contact details.

Bacchus - Official Wine Society for the University of Oxford. Their mission is to promote the enjoyment of wine by all, in an affordable, relaxed and unpretentious manner.

Oxford Motor Club - Provides a forum for motorsport, particularly rallying in Oxford. The Club has a full and active Calendar of social activities, Technical Talks, Video Evenings, Guest Speakers and Club Competitions.

Oxford Badminton Club - Includes location map, fixutre list, photos, and contact details.

Redefield Badminton Club - Includes club location, meeting times, membership fees and contact details.

Oxford Rugby Football Club - A friendly, sociable, local rugby club in the city of Oxford. Berks/Bucks & Oxon 1.

Oxford Ice Dance Club - Information on club meeting times, membership requirements and competitions.

Oxford City Stars - Providing information on local ice hocky club. Includes details of teams, coaching and training, message board, members area and rink information.

Oxford Blues Skater Hockey Club - Information about the club, game, fixtures, scores, training, news, links, and pictures.

Oxford Stadium - Includes calendar of racing days and special events, plus information on betting and greyhound FAQs.

Jet Ladies Basketball Team - Basketball club for women, playing in the local Oxon and Chiltern League.

BWF Permanent Trails - Oxford Walk - Contacts and route descriptions. From the British Walking Federation.

East Ward Allotment Association - Information on this Oxford group, including newsletters, committee meetings, details of their shop and how to get an allotment.

Elder Stubbs Allotments - An Oxford charity "re-inventing" allotments over the last ten years to make them more attractive to local residents. Information and pictures about their work with local mental health charities and a variety of non-traditional activities and events.

Oxford Adaptive Canoe Group - A project aiming to offer disabled people an opportunity to enjoy canoeing.

Oxford Adaptive Rowing Club - Photo gallery, contacts and involvement opportunities for disabled people to row, coach and cox.

The Wind and Bottom Club - Describes this club for conversation about ghosts.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert Recreation and Sports The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my future crimes. -- Prince 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 Recreation and Sports "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Recreation and Sports Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. All you need is love. -- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -- Albert Einstein You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Recreation and Sports "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries 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 "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. -- Lana Turner Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George Recreation and Sports Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. -- Baudelaire The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. -- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. -- Orison Swett Marden Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) 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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi Recreation and Sports If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) My other wife is beautiful. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports I must follow the people. Am I not their leader? -- Benjamin Disraeli Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. -- Unknown history student Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Recreation and Sports The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Recreation and Sports
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