The Princess Royal Sports Complex - Describes the facilities at Wellington School's sports complex which is open to the public, sports clubs and organisations out of school hours. Includes booking information, membership details and news.
Wellington Federation of Sports Clubs - Composite site covering a variety of sports and recreation clubs in the town. Includes Federation information together with league tables, match reports and news.
Wellington Scout Web - Introduction to the 1st Wellington Scout Group and the activities of its Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Venture groups.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Recreation and Sports I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Recreation and Sports
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Recreation and Sports
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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Recreation and Sports Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) 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
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Recreation and Sports "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Recreation and Sports Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Recreation and Sports "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "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 In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Recreation and Sports
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports
