City of Leeds Swimming Club - Home club of Adrian Moorhouse, Olympic gold medalist. Information about the club's history and successes, with news of their current programme.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Swimming Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Swimming
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Swimming "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Swimming
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Swimming And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Swimming
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Swimming Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 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
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blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Swimming "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Swimming
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Swimming A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Swimming
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Swimming The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Swimming
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Swimming Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Swimming
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Swimming "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "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) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Swimming
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Swimming There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Swimming
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Swimming "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Swimming
