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Recreation and Sports Links

Sunderland Stadium - Greyhound racing track. News, track facts, results, tote betting, and contacts.

Wearside Cycling Club - Club information and cycling links.

Wearside Golf Club - Information on membership, location, competitions, club pro and facilities.

Modelmans Mania - Hints, tips, gallery and shop for scale resin figure kit models.

Sunderland Strollers - Running club based at Ashbrooke Sports club. Events, results and club newsletters.

Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. -- Mark Twain If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. -- Benjamin Disraeli >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Recreation and Sports Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and stupid from We must believe in free will, we have no choice. -- Isaac B. Singer "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. -- Mortimer J. Adler Recreation and Sports "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. - Irving Kristol Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. - Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Recreation and Sports I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance. -- King George V When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of the workmanship. -- John Renmerde "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Recreation and Sports If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Recreation and Sports The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life. --Loesje "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. -- Elvis Presley Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon Recreation and Sports Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -- Agnes Repplier Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. -- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble. -- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. -- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Recreation and Sports "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. -- John Stuart Mill When you're away, I'm restless, lonely Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you are here. -- Samuel Hoffenstein Recreation and Sports 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. -- Robert Benchley MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin Recreation and Sports Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports I married beneath me. All women do. -- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Recreation and Sports "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Recreation and Sports "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Recreation and Sports If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one. -- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Children are a poor man's riches. -- English proverb The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Recreation and Sports "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports
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