South Shields Sailing Club - Details of membership, club house, location, local weather, events and results.
South Shields Photographic Society - Information about the organisation, their events and history, as well as a gallery of photographs and a glossary of photographic terms.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Recreation and Sports
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Recreation and Sports
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Recreation and Sports Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Recreation and Sports Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Recreation and Sports
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Recreation and Sports
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Recreation and Sports You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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, Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Recreation and Sports 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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Recreation and Sports
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, Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Recreation and Sports
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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Recreation and Sports blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Recreation and Sports
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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) Recreation and Sports
