Craig-y-Don Bowling Club - Facts and information about the club, its fixtures, members and history, as well as events going on around and inside it. Also information of interest to all North Wales bowlers.
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-- English Proverb If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
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-- Eddie Rickenbacker Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
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-- B. F. Skinner If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
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