Kearsley Cricket Club - Includes history, honours, statistics and results. Play in the Bolton Cricket League.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Kearsley "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Kearsley
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Kearsley Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Kearsley
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Kearsley This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review 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 We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Kearsley
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Kearsley Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte May you never leave your marriage alive. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Kearsley
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "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) Kearsley "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Kearsley
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Kearsley 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kearsley
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kearsley My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Kearsley
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Kearsley Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Kearsley
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Kearsley "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Kearsley
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kearsley Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Kearsley
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Kearsley "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) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Kearsley
