Epsom District Swimming Club - News, fees, history, records, summary of squads, training/lesson times and places, events diary. Offers lessons for beginners and training for competitive swimmers including Masters.
Epsom Lawn Tennis Club - Includes history, facilities, membership information and results.
Atkiins Archers on the Web - Archery club based in central Epsom. Includes membership details, news and picture gallery.
Epsom Riding for the Disabled - Includes events, news, horse pictures and details, donation and facilities information.
The Riverclub - Health and fitness club located in Old Malden. Contains details of facilities and classes.
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Alphonse Karr 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 It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Recreation and Sports
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-- Chinese saying A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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-- Satya Sai Baba Recreation and Sports
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
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-- Charles Pierce Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
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-- Anon. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Recreation and Sports
Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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-- Michael Meissner Recreation and Sports If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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them.
-- Robert Graves Recreation and Sports
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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for life.
-- Andrew Brown Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Recreation and Sports Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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convi What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Recreation and Sports
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not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- Anita Wise Recreation and Sports
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.
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is a chance."
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Recreation and Sports
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Recreation and Sports Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
