Bowood Park Golf Course - Set in 230 acres of rolling hills and woodlands, Bowood Park Estate once formed part of the 13th century deer park owned by the Black Prince. Now an 18 hole, par 72 golf course measuring 6,692 yards.
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- Napoleon Bonaparte The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Golf "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Abraham Lincoln Golf
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Golf I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
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-- Chekhov Golf
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see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Golf "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Golf
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Golf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Golf
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Golf A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
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-- James Baldwin Golf
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) 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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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-- Yogi Berra We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Golf
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Adlai Stevenson "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Antonio Machado Golf
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Golf When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Golf
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous Golf If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Golf
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Golf My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Golf
