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Recreation and Sports Links

Queens Sports Club - Provides information on the facilities offered by the Club including Squash, Tennis, Gym and social activities.
Old Rishworthian RUFC - Includes players statistics, fixtures and direction to the ground. A junior rugby union club based in Halifax. Yorkshire 4.
Old Brodleians Rugby Union Club - The site contains fixtures, match reports and news for all teams from minis to veterans. The club play Yorkshire Division 1.
Halifax Cyclists' Touring Club - Local section of the Cyclists' Touring Club - the national cyclists' association. Details of events, meetings, the club, and of other cycling clubs in Calderdale.
Airborne - Paragliding, paramotoring, and hang gliding training, holidays and sales. Prices, information about training and photos.
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. -- Jim Backus There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Recreation and Sports "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Recreation and Sports Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle Recreation and Sports I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael Recreation and Sports There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem. -- George Bernard Shaw Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars "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) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. - Ian L. Fleming Recreation and Sports Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving. -- Russell Green The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe "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) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Recreation and Sports To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Recreation and Sports I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. -- Samuel Butler One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Recreation and Sports Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot- proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. -- Josh Billings Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports 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 A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower Recreation and Sports "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K. Dick "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-) Recreation and Sports If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) May you never leave your marriage alive. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. -- Lord Byron Recreation and Sports
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