North West Racing Club - A club for horse racing enthusiasts living in North West England and North Wales.
Pet Lovers on Line - Everything you need to know about pet and animal care in Cumbria and Lancashire.
Northside ABC - Amateur boxing club. Home of the 36kg schoolboy champion.
Sportloco.com - Amateur sport portal for the North West includes news, message board and polls. Local clubs are invited to create a free website to post their own details, events, news, calendars and message boards.
Northern Monkeys Carp Fishing - Dedicated to specimen carp angling in the area. Information on carp waters, along with catch reports and news updates.
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Recreation and Sports
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Recreation and Sports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Recreation and Sports
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Recreation and Sports "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Recreation and Sports
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Recreation and Sports What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Recreation and Sports "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Recreation and Sports Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Recreation and Sports If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Recreation and Sports
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Recreation and Sports The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Recreation and Sports They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Recreation and Sports
