Wellington Swimming Club - Find news from this competitive club, fixture list, training times. Also hosts a page of information for all masters swimmers in Shropshire.
Xcite Adventures - Offers air and water based activities inluding jet skiing, helicoper lessons, wind surfing, and glider flights.
Telford Steam Railway - Preserved railway with information on steam and diesel services, steam tram and model railway.
Telford wado-ryu karate club - Location, training times, club members news, and club photo gallery, plus student of the month award page.
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Recreation and Sports Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Recreation and Sports
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Recreation and Sports Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Recreation and Sports
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Recreation and Sports
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Recreation and Sports All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Recreation and Sports
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Recreation and Sports It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Recreation and Sports
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Recreation and Sports
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "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, ignorance, g "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Recreation and Sports
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Recreation and Sports
