Kirkby Lonsdale Golf Club - A par 72 parkland course situated in one of the most picturesque parts of the country. Close to the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales.
Kirkby Lonsdale Motor Club - With the advent of stage rallying, and the demise of road rallying, the club instigated the 'Lees for Tiles Stage Rally Championship'. This progressed to be one of the best supported Championships in the country.
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- Art Buchwald "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u 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 "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Recreation and Sports "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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worse tha Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Recreation and Sports It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports
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-- Danny Kaye The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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really Recreation and Sports Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
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-- George Bus "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Recreation and Sports
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry 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 "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Recreation and Sports Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Recreation and Sports Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Recreation and Sports
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Recreation and Sports I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "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) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Recreation and Sports
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Recreation and Sports What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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couldn't cha blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Recreation and Sports
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "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 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Recreation and Sports "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
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