Bristol Golf Courses - Directory of local courses with accommodation for the visiting golfer.
Henbury Golf Club - A parkland course in the North West of the city: course information, events, fees, links and contact details.
Shirehampton Park Golf Club - Clubhouse and course details, directory of other clubs and contact information
Bristol Golf Centre - Specialist shop: profile, products, special offers, links and contact information.
Knowle Golf Club - Membership information, details of course, fixtures and fees, history and contact information.
University of Bristol Golf Club - Information, committee, events, fixtures and contact details for club playing outside the city at the Woodspring Club.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Golf
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Golf Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Golf
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Golf The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Golf
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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-- Jim Elliott Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Golf
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Golf My other wife is beautiful. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Golf
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Golf The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Golf
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Golf Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Golf
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Golf Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 Golf
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Golf To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Golf
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Golf Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Golf blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Golf
