The Old English & Colonial Lurcher Club - Promoting lurcher ownership and lurcher-oriented hunting, including hare coursing. The Club, members, Code of Conduct, single-handed competition, breeds and links. Lancashire and Yorkshire, England.
National Coursing Club - Brief guide, history, dogs, hares, 10 lies, news, fixtures list, results and links. Suffolk, England.
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "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) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Associations 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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Associations
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Associations Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Associations
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Associations Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Associations
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Associations It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Associations
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Associations "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Associations
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Associations Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Associations
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane 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 Associations "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) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Associations
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Associations To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Associations
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Associations A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Associations
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "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) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Associations If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Associations
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Associations 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 The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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