West Kirby Wasps - Under-6 to under-16s and Veterans football teams. Includes fixtures and club news.
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Football In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Football
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Football The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Football
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Football Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Football
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Football Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Football
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Football There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Football
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil 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 Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Football A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Football
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Football My other wife is beautiful. Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Football
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Football Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Football
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Football "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Football
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Football Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Football
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Football Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Football
