Stafford and Stone Canoe Club - Contains an introduction to canoe slalom, description and short history of the club, forthcoming events, articles and results.
Stafford Railway Circle - Full details of modelling and other activities, exhibition and monthly magazine.
Ingestre Stables - All aspects of training for both horse and rider, from the very first lesson through to examination or competition preparation. BHS Approved. Ingestre.
Stafford Apex Swimming Club - Includes information about the club, how to join and forthcoming fixtures. This club caters for competitive swimmers from 7 years old up to masters.
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Recreation and Sports To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Recreation and Sports
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 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Recreation and Sports As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Recreation and Sports
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Recreation and Sports A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Recreation and Sports "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "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 Recreation and Sports "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Recreation and Sports To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Recreation and Sports
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports "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) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Recreation and Sports
