Hazel Grove Golf Club - Comprehensive details of the club. Lists a golf course review, location and contact details.
Hazel Grove Slot Car Club - Contains pit lane features, download the latest newsletter, location and contact details.
Hazel Grove United JFC - Provides an index of teams, general information on the club, archives and associated links.
Disley & District Flower Club - Lists meetings, club fees, how to find and contact details, history, pictures and associated links.
Bullock Smithy Hike - 56 mile, annual hike across the Peak District, Northern Derbyshire. Includes route, rules, photographs and fastest times. Organised by 3rd Hazel Grove Scouts group.
Norbury Parish Church Bowling club - Crown Green bowling in the Alderley Edge league from April through September. Welcomes juniors, seniors and disabled members. Forthcoming social and competitive events.
Bell Ringing at St Thomas Church, Norbury - Promotes the ringing of church tower bells of St Thomas, Norbury. Gives information when the bells are rung, how to get in touch and how to learn to ring.
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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-- Oscar Wilde Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Recreation and Sports
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. 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? 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 Recreation and Sports
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Recreation and Sports I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Recreation and Sports
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
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-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Recreation and Sports I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Recreation and Sports
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Recreation and Sports Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Recreation and Sports
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Recreation and Sports Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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-- Sophocles Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison He who limps is still walking.
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-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Groucho Marx Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Recreation and Sports
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Recreation and Sports Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports
