Whitley Bay Boys Club - Offers a wide range of sporting activities including football, rugby and cricket. Lists its activities with news, events andrules.
Whitley Squaws - Ladies ice hockey team that includes fixtures, league table, squad information and contact details.
Whitley Bay Golf Club - Club and course information including a light hearted 'survive the course' guide.
Whitley Bay Islanders Ice Hockey Team - A team of supporters of the Whitley Warriors who play informal matches against other similar sides. Includes contact information, news, practice times and team biographies.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Recreation and Sports "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Recreation and Sports
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Recreation and Sports Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain 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. "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Recreation and Sports When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Recreation and Sports
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Recreation and Sports "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Recreation and Sports Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Recreation and Sports "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Recreation and Sports To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Recreation and Sports
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Recreation and Sports There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Recreation and Sports What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy 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 Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Recreation and Sports
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Recreation and Sports When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports
