The Fugitives MCC - Motorcycle group locally based. Offering information for the bike enthuisast including photographs, event information, for sale and wanted section.
Southerness Golf Club - Championship 18 hole links course. Prices and booking available on the web site.
Organised Chaos - Offering paintball arena and off-road buggies. Lists activities, prices, location and contact addresses.
St Michael`s Cricket Club - Information about the club including history, match reports, fixtures and fun pages.
Dumfries and Galloway Golf Club - Warm and friendly club which welcomes visitors on weekdays and some Sundays. There is also a shop and resident professional.
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Recreation and Sports
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Recreation and Sports "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Recreation and Sports
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Recreation and Sports "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Recreation and Sports
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Recreation and Sports "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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Recreation and Sports For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Recreation and Sports
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Recreation and Sports He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Recreation and Sports
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Recreation and Sports The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports
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 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Recreation and Sports Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Recreation and Sports In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Recreation and Sports
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Recreation and Sports Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Recreation and Sports
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Recreation and Sports blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Recreation and Sports
