Youth Action Wiltshire and Wiltshire Young Carers - Voluntary youth organisation offering training and information for youth groups and club leaders, together with advice, sporting or creative activities and events for young people aged 8-25 years. Includes details of events.
South Wilts Cricket Club - Fixtures, match reports, tables, club officers, junior section and noticeboard.
Wiltshire Squash Rackets Association - Club details, summer and winter leagues, cup competition and player rankings. Includes players gallery, match reports and mental performance test.
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Recreation and Sports Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Recreation and Sports
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Recreation and Sports 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. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Recreation and Sports
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Recreation and Sports "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Recreation and Sports
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson 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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Recreation and Sports
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Recreation and Sports
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Recreation and Sports
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Recreation and Sports The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Recreation and Sports
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "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) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Recreation and Sports
