Staines Hockey Club - Premier league standard hockey for both ladies and men.
Staines RFC - Includes senior, women, youth and mini sections.
Staines Town Juniors F.C. - Information and results from 10 junior football teams ranging from 7 to 13 years old.
Staines Boat Club - Located on the River Thames welcomes new members of all ages - Junior, Senior or Veteran, whether you want to row or scull.
Laleham Camera Club - Programme of meetings, location and examples of pictures by members.
The Staines Wargamers - Wargamers meet every Friday evening from 7pm to 11pm at the Thameside Community Centre.
Staines Swimming Club - Swimming club serving the people of Staines and the surrounding area. Cater for all abilities from the non-swimmer to national competitive standard.
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Recreation and Sports All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Recreation and Sports
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Recreation and Sports Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
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 Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Recreation and Sports The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Recreation and Sports The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Recreation and Sports
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Recreation and Sports
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Recreation and Sports
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Recreation and Sports
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Recreation and Sports The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Recreation and Sports Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Recreation and Sports
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Recreation and Sports The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Recreation and Sports
