Lubenham Cricket Club - Village cricket club playing friendlies on Saturday and Sunday afternoons throughout the summer. Fixture details.
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Lubenham Marriage is a rest period between romances. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lubenham
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Lubenham My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Lubenham
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Lubenham Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Lubenham
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Lubenham Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Lubenham
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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 It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Lubenham Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Lubenham
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Lubenham "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Lubenham
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Lubenham The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lubenham
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lubenham A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Lubenham
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Lubenham The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Lubenham
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Lubenham He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lubenham
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Lubenham "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Lubenham
