Sheffield Astronomical Society - Amateur society which serves the Sheffield and South Yorkshire area. Includes members' images, a meetings and events calendar, pictures of the committee, and society news.
Quilt Time Workshops - Workshops for quilts, patchwork, sewing and textile crafts.
Sheffield Phoenix Cycling Club - Includes a history of the club, photos, reviews of cycling products and a message board.
Sheffield RUFC - Sheffields premier rugby union football club. North 1.
High Hazels Park Bowling Club - A local community crown green bowling club at Darnall in Sheffield. includes fixtures, diary, location and contact information.
Sheffield Hallam Dojo - Official information site including information about the club and the sport as well as links to the Okinawan Traditional Goju Ryu Karate-do Association.
Sheffield Motorcycle Action Group - Group that meets twice a month to discuss motorycling issues in Sheffield. Site includes information about the group, contact details and a guestbook.
Sheffield Raptors - Skater hockey club, includes player profiles, photos, news and match reports.
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-- Oscar Wilde "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Recreation and Sports
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY Recreation and Sports Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
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The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "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) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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 An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
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-- Dinah Shore Recreation and Sports Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward Recreation and Sports
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
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-- Edward P. Tryon We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Recreation and Sports Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Recreation and Sports
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Recreation and Sports The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Recreation and Sports "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "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) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Recreation and Sports
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche My other wife is beautiful. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Recreation and Sports
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Recreation and Sports To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Recreation and Sports
