Pontlottyn Boys & Girls Club - Providing sporting and social activities for local youth. Includes news, history, photo gallery, and rosters of football and netball teams.
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Recreation and Sports
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Recreation and Sports I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Recreation and Sports
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Recreation and Sports
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Recreation and Sports "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Recreation and Sports
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Recreation and Sports Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "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'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Recreation and Sports
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Recreation and Sports "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Recreation and Sports
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Recreation and Sports "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Recreation and Sports
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Recreation and Sports
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Recreation and Sports Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Recreation and Sports
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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Recreation and Sports Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Recreation and Sports
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Recreation and Sports Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Recreation and Sports
