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Down Bloodhounds - Overview of pack hunting the clean boot, with meets throughout the county. Includes officials, hunt and hunter trials reports, diary and photo album.
Mourne Mountain Marathon - Competitive event for teams of two with rules, entry form, travel information and photos of previous events.
Ards Cycling Club - Includes news, results, events calendar and member profiles.
The Mourne Rambling Group - Includes news, events and advice for walkers.
Ards Ju Jitsu - Includes news, events, photo gallery and contact information for clubs in Newtownards, Comber, Kirkubbin and Donaghadee.
Scarvagh House Stud - Standing eight stallions and offering in-house veterinary care, transport, boarding and walk-in facilities. Includes stallion pedigrees and information, young stock for sale, locality map and contact details.
DV Diving - PADI dive centre and RYA training centre based at Strangford Lough. Features information on recreational and technical instruction, course schedules and dive locations, holiday excursions, and contact details.
Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club - Includes history, race results and contacts. Based in Cultra.
Glengormley Electronics Amateur Radio Society - Includes event calendar, classifieds, membership information and FAQ.
Toyota North Down Cycling Club - Offering racing, time trials, touring, mountain biking and training rides. Includes events, pictures and contacts.
County Down Scouts - News, events and links directory.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Recreation and Sports "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. -- Albert Einstein "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Recreation and Sports "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. -- Tom Robbins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something. -- Seymour Papert Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning Recreation and Sports "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Recreation and Sports The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. -- Margaret Thatcher 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 Recreation and Sports "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. -- G. K. Chesterton "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Honor the ocean of love. -- George de Benneville Recreation and Sports "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile. -- Billy Sunday Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Recreation and Sports When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, He would make a lovely corpse. - Charles Dickens In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Recreation and Sports Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Recreation and Sports 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 "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) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Recreation and Sports "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau ( As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Recreation and Sports No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the custom of shaving. -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "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 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford 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, "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Recreation and Sports I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Recreation and Sports When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. -- Jackie Gleason Recreation and Sports
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