Pershore Golf Society - Promotes the society and provides update for its members. Includes fixtures and results, summer and winter KO competitions, and contacts.
Pershore Cricket Club - Player photographs, news and fixtures. Also a junior section.
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Recreation and Sports Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Recreation and Sports
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words 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 Recreation and Sports What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Recreation and Sports
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "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) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Recreation and Sports Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Recreation and Sports It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Recreation and Sports I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Recreation and Sports Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Recreation and Sports "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Recreation and Sports
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Recreation and Sports Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Recreation and Sports
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Recreation and Sports Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Recreation and Sports
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Recreation and Sports "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
