Bloxwich Cricket Club - Includes club information and history, fixtures and results, and player profiles.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 Recreation and Sports Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Recreation and Sports
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Recreation and Sports Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Recreation and Sports Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Recreation and Sports Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Recreation and Sports "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Recreation and Sports
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Recreation and Sports In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Recreation and Sports
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Recreation and Sports
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Recreation and Sports Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Recreation and Sports
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Recreation and Sports
