Mendip Shooting Ground - Clay Shooting facilities with a wide variety of target presentation to suit all levels of experience.
Wells Life Saving Club - Affiliated to The Royal Life Saving Society and provides training for the Society's programmes and awards. News, information and contact details.
Wells City Harriers - History, committee, membership and constitution for running club. Includes details of fixtures and results.
Wells and Shepton Mallet Amateur Swimming Club - Fixture list, news, training times, fees and background. The club includes learn-to-swim, improvers and competitive swimmers and hosts an annual Open meet, schools gala and local clubs gala.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Recreation and Sports The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Recreation and Sports "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Recreation and Sports Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Recreation and Sports Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Recreation and Sports
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Recreation and Sports
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Recreation and Sports The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Recreation and Sports
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Recreation and Sports "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Recreation and Sports "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
