Silver Birch Golf Course - 9 hole golf course in Betws-yn-Rhos, near Colwyn Bay, in a fine country setting.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Golf I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Golf
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Golf Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Golf
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Golf I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Golf
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Golf "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Golf
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Golf Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Golf
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) 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 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Golf 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 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Golf
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "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) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Golf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Golf
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Golf "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis 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 Golf
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Golf A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Golf
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Golf Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Golf
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Golf blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Golf
