Kirkby United F.C. - Sunday league football club. Fixtures, league tables, player statistics and profiles and guestbook.
5305 Locomotive Association - Charity for steam locomotive preservation. Locomotives owned and their current status, photographs and upcoming events.
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Kirkby in Ashfield "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Kirkby in Ashfield
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Kirkby in Ashfield 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kirkby in Ashfield
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Kirkby in Ashfield Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Kirkby in Ashfield
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Kirkby in Ashfield Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Kirkby in Ashfield
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Kirkby in Ashfield "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 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 Kirkby in Ashfield
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Kirkby in Ashfield "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Kirkby in Ashfield
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "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) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Kirkby in Ashfield History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Kirkby in Ashfield
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous 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 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Kirkby in Ashfield Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Kirkby in Ashfield
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson 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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Kirkby in Ashfield I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Kirkby in Ashfield
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Kirkby in Ashfield "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Kirkby in Ashfield
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Kirkby in Ashfield Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kirkby in Ashfield
