Droitwich Golf and Country Club - Detailed descriptions and plans of each hole on the course, together with club competition winners. Also pages on the club's history, and the rules and etiquette of golf.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Recreation and Sports Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Recreation and Sports
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "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) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Recreation and Sports Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Recreation and Sports
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Recreation and Sports Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Recreation and Sports Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Recreation and Sports
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "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 Recreation and Sports One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Recreation and Sports
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Recreation and Sports No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Recreation and Sports
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Recreation and Sports Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
