Leeds Metropolitan University Canoe Club - Information for members and people interested in joining. Includes details of the social life, tuition, club kit, and how to join.
Leeds Taekwondo Clubs - Information about Taekwondo, martial arts, and club activities in Leeds. Includes newsletter and photos.
Bowmen of Adel - Membership includes beginners and experienced archers. Information about the club, competitions and current news affecting the club's activities. On-line handbook for members, and prospective archers.
Leeds Blading Dragons - New Leeds skater hockey team (aged 12-14). Information and pictures of players, coaches corner.
Leeds Wall Indoor Climbing Centre - A training facility for climbers of all abilities. Download climbing routes for many Yorkshire sites. News of events, competitions, indoor facilities, and a photograph gallery.
Leeds Beekeepers' Association - Information about a thriving association and its apiary at Temple Newsam. Includes annual events listing, and details of training available.
Middleton Park Equestrian Centre - Multi-purpose riding facility in Leeds with specialist facilities for the disabled. Includes off road hacking and carriage driving in 300 acres of parkland.
Carol's Home Page - Information about 2nd Adel Brownies and 3rd Bramhope Guides.
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Recreation and Sports
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Recreation and Sports
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Recreation and Sports There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "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) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Recreation and Sports For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Recreation and Sports
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Recreation and Sports Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Recreation and Sports The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Recreation and Sports To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Recreation and Sports
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Recreation and Sports Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Recreation and Sports "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William 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
