Valley Striders Athletic Club - Club for road, fell, and cross-country runners based in Meanwood Valley, Leeds. Information on membership, programme of races, and news of results. History of the club and achievements of its members.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Running "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Running
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Running The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Running
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Running Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Running
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Running If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Running
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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, May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Running 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 There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Running
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Running "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Running
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Running Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Running
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Running Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Running
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Running Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Running
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Running There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Running
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Running Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Running
