City of Sunderland Amateur Swimming Club - Includes information, events, advice and news for prospective and current members, plus detailed job specifications for committee and volunteers.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Recreation and Sports
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Recreation and Sports We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Recreation and Sports
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Recreation and Sports In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Recreation and Sports
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Recreation and Sports Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "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
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Recreation and Sports
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Recreation and Sports To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Recreation and Sports You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Recreation and Sports "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Recreation and Sports
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Recreation and Sports You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Recreation and Sports
