South Tyneside Swimming Club - Local swimming club. Details of events, membership, training, history and committee.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Recreation and Sports
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Recreation and Sports The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Recreation and Sports
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Recreation and Sports The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Recreation and Sports
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Recreation and Sports Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Recreation and Sports
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Recreation and Sports
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Recreation and Sports Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Recreation and Sports
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Recreation and Sports "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Recreation and Sports Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Recreation and Sports
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) May you never leave your marriage alive. Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Recreation and Sports Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Recreation and Sports
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Recreation and Sports The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Recreation and Sports "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports
