Aberystwyth Ramblers - Leads a programme of walks northern half of Ceredigion in Mid Wales . Contacts, walks programme and links to related resources .
Ystwyth Cycling Club - Cycling club with regular meetings and events in Aberystwyth and area. Includes events diary and current news.
Shin Yo Shotokan Karate Club - Based in Aberystwyth and a member of the KUGB. Site contains information for students of the club and interested visitors.
Aberystwyth Angling Association - Offers trout, sea-trout and salmon fishing in lakes and rivers along the Rheidol and Ystwyth rivers.
Aberystwyth Town Football Club - Information about the club, squad, matches, and history, with news and a photo gallery. English/Cymraeg.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Recreation and Sports
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Recreation and Sports
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Recreation and Sports
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "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) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Recreation and Sports
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) Recreation and Sports
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Recreation and Sports "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev 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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Recreation and Sports
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Recreation and Sports blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Recreation and Sports
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Recreation and Sports "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Recreation and Sports
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Recreation and Sports This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Recreation and Sports
