Greetham Valley Golf Club - Golf complex set in 260 acres. Championship course, driving range, restaurant, shop and lessons.
Rutland Morris Men - Founded in 1974, the RMM regularly tour Rutland pubs and national venues with their bells.
Rutland Motorcycle Club - The RMC is a small club which aims to bring together motorcyclists who live in Rutland and the surrounding area. Details of meetings and a newsletter.
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Recreation and Sports
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyway, 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,
ign Recreation and Sports In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Recreation and Sports
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Recreation and Sports "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall 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 Recreation and Sports The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Recreation and Sports Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "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) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Recreation and Sports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Recreation and Sports
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "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) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Recreation and Sports Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
-- Anne S The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports 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. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Recreation and Sports The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Recreation and Sports
