Deaf Bowlers Index - Tenpin bowling. Reports and teams for the European Championships and World Games plus contacts for the Southern Deaf Sports Association and worldwide links.
MDSA - Midland Deaf Sports Association - Umbrella organisation for smaller clubs throughout the region and covering a range of sports and activities. Tournaments, forthcoming events and links.
Fit for Kicks - Taekwondo champion Andrew Yick is keen to set up a martial arts club teaching deaf people. News article with links to Taekwondo organisations and help.
Keynsham Shotokai - Bristol martial arts club with classes for deaf children and adults.
Deaf Skies - Personal pages of a deaf sky-diver. Includes details of events, and background information.
Deaf Mountaineering Club - For deaf people who love mountaineering and fell-walking. Introduction and contact details.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Deaf More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Deaf
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Deaf The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Deaf
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Deaf Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Deaf
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Deaf A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Deaf
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Deaf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Deaf
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) 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 Deaf Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Deaf
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Deaf Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Deaf
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Deaf Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Deaf
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Deaf Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Deaf
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Deaf Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Deaf
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner 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 Deaf The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Deaf
