Brancepeth Castle Golf Club - Provides information for both members and visitors including course details, score card, facilities, fixtures and contacts .
Brancepeth Computer Publications Ltd - Provide course text books. Includes an ICT resource bank that includes course support booklets, and a forum for information exchange .
Brancepeth Church Appeal - Restoration of the mediaeval St Brandon's . History, archaeology and architecture. Photo gallery: before and after the disastrous fire of 1998. Restoration plan and progress.
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Brancepeth Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Brancepeth
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Brancepeth Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence 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.
-- Lucille Ball blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Brancepeth
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Brancepeth The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Brancepeth
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Brancepeth Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Brancepeth
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Brancepeth Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 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 Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Brancepeth
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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Brancepeth "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Brancepeth
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Brancepeth Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Brancepeth
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Brancepeth Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Brancepeth
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Brancepeth "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Brancepeth
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Brancepeth "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Brancepeth
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Brancepeth "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Brancepeth
