Black Mountains Gliding Club - One of Britain's best ridge and wave gliding sites at Talgarth in the Brecon Beacons.
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Recreation and Sports "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Recreation and Sports There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Recreation and Sports
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Recreation and Sports Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Recreation and Sports
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Recreation and Sports "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Recreation and Sports And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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 Recreation and Sports
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 Recreation and Sports
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Recreation and Sports What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Recreation and Sports I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Recreation and Sports
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Recreation and Sports Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Recreation and Sports
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports
