Recreation and Sports Links

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Recreation and Sports Links

	Duddingston Golf Club - Formed in 1895 by the members of the insurance and banking fraternity in Edinburgh. Offers a club history and course details along with a location map and contact information.
	Edinburgh Hash - If you like to run, jog or walk in good company and good for a laugh, beer and party have a look and join in.
	Highland Stag - Company, in Scotland, specialising in organising stag parties.
	Portobello Rugby Club - The official site with results, fixtures, tables, player profiles and news.
	Edinburgh Academicals Cricket Club - Edinburgh based Cricket Club. Contains profiles, tables and a mailbase. Always looking for new members.
	The Edinburgh Club - Health and fitness club aimed at people from all walks of life. From 17 to 70, fit to unfit, big or small. Includes details of the services and products on offer, plus membership and contact information.
	Excel Sports Academy - Runs school holiday sport programme for children in Edinburgh, activities include football, rugby, tennis, basketball and badminton.
	University of Edinburgh Fencing Club - Information for the fencing salle operating out of this educational establishment.
	Raceland Karting Centre - Indoor and outdoor karting centre. Specialists in corporate entertainment, stag groups and birthday parties. Karting news, links, andcontact information.
	Edinburgh Ski Club - Club run by skiers for skiers (and not so serious skiers) year round. Offer a mixture of ski and social activities.
	Broughton Rugby Club - Edinburgh rugby union side invite you to join the club. Contains all the latest news from the clubhouse, merchandise and ticket information.
	Edinburgh Scouting - Includes details of local scouting activities, including international ventures, plus contact and joining information
	Leith RFC - Includes fixtures, results, events and links.
	Boroughmuir RFC - Fixtures, results, all the latest news and information, club history and player profiles.
	hibsscotland - A collection of photographs of the Scottish Rugby Calcutta Cup winning team of 2000, and the Hibernian football team.
	Colinton Guides - Includes news and events as well as activities and games.
	Edinburgh Traditional Karate - Contains information about the club, instructors and opening times.
	Royal Commonwealth Pool Fencing Club - Providing location, practise times with pictures, committee members, contacts and results.
	Edinburgh Road Club - A forward looking and dynamic cycling club of over 160 members and welcoming new members of all ages and levels of ability.
	FT-Designs - Edinburgh based makers of fully adjustable stock target rifle for the sport of field target shooting.
	Capital Flames - Roller Hockey Club with team photos and league history.
	Corstorphine Tennis Club - Tennis club in the west of Edinburgh. Site contains details of joining fees, social activities.
	Grange Dyvours Lawn Tennis Club - Founded in 1832, The Grange Club has 5 grass courts and 3 Astroturf courts.
	Heriot Watt University Fencing Club - Club and competition details, member profiles, photographs and links to other fencing sites.
	Federation of Edinburgh and District Allotments and Gardens Associations - The representative body for allotments sites in Edinburgh and district - information about allotments, applying for an allotment, events, seed exchange and newsletter. Includes contact details.
	Darcregan Dog Training - All breed dog training using motivational methods.

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Recreation and Sports A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve. -- Francois Cavanna Recreation and Sports "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables 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 Recreation and Sports Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. -- Mother Teresa When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance." -- Anon. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Recreation and Sports To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. Andre Gide "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Recreation and Sports If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Recreation and Sports The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. -- Aldous Huxley One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. -- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Recreation and Sports Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "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) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Recreation and Sports The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. -- Thoreau Recreation and Sports Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -- Gloria Steinem Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Recreation and Sports "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. -- Andr� Maurois Recreation and Sports Work is a four-letter word. -- The Smiths (Morrissey) Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance Recreation and Sports Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on. -- Carl Sandburg May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty Recreation and Sports The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. -- Robert G. Ingersoll 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 Unha "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Recreation and Sports "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Recreation and Sports Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. -- Harry Truman Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser tha Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber Recreation and Sports The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for. -- Tom Robbins Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest. -- Irwin Corey Recreation and Sports Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |