Harlequins Orienteering Club - Covers the area from the west of Birmingham to the Wyre Forest. Site includes information on fixtures, results and training evenings.
Rotaserv Club - Social and recreational programme for the 30's - 40's including sports, fundraising and community projects. Meets in Sutton Coldfield, Solihull and Halesowen.
Midland Gliding Club - One of the older soaring sites, located on top of the 1400' Long Mynd ridge. Ridge, thermal and wave flying from a hill-top site.
Midlands Kite Fliers - One of the largest kite groups in the UK. Includes events calendar, benefits, fees, plans and reports
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Recreation and Sports Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Recreation and Sports
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Recreation and Sports "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Recreation and Sports
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
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-- Petrarch If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Recreation and Sports
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
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-- Shecky Greene "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Recreation and Sports I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Recreation and Sports
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
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"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports
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-- Clarence Darrow "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Recreation and Sports "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "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) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Recreation and Sports
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone Recreation and Sports Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
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