Bowring Park Golf Course - Course planner, fees and the course history. Site also includes a virtual reality model of the course (viewable with a VRML plug-in).
Court Hey Park - Public park. Information about environmental organisations, the Friends group, wildlife, events, history and recreational use.
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "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) Recreation and Sports There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Recreation and Sports
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Recreation and Sports "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Recreation and Sports
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Recreation and Sports
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Recreation and Sports No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Recreation and Sports
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Recreation and Sports He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Recreation and Sports Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Recreation and Sports
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Recreation and Sports The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
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 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Recreation and Sports My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Recreation and Sports
