Melksham Volleyball Club - Local volleyball club playing in county leagues (both men's and ladies), national competitions and junior competitions.
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Recreation and Sports Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Recreation and Sports
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Recreation and Sports Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Recreation and Sports
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Recreation and Sports Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Recreation and Sports
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Recreation and Sports "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Recreation and Sports
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Recreation and Sports
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "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) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Recreation and Sports Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Recreation and Sports
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Recreation and Sports
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports "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) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Recreation and Sports "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Recreation and Sports
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Recreation and Sports Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Recreation and Sports
