Goring Gap Boat Club - The club provides opportunities for all ages to enjoy the river Thames in unpowered craft - with an emphasis on non-competitive rowing and sculling. Includes club history, membership, regatta and photographs.
Dentokan Jujutsu - A club practicing a traditional Japanese martial art at classes in Berinsfield, Warborough and Piddington. Profile, articles and diary.
Soll Leisure - Runs several leisure centres in the county. Details each one's facilities.
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Recreation and Sports
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Recreation and Sports Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Recreation and Sports I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Recreation and Sports What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Recreation and Sports
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Recreation and Sports Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson 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 peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Recreation and Sports
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Recreation and Sports My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Recreation and Sports
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Recreation and Sports 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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Recreation and Sports Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Recreation and Sports blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Recreation and Sports
