Crossroads Cricket Club - Members of Bradford Central League. Fixture and results information; also history, pictures, profiles, and statistics.
Salem Athletic Cricket Club - Members of Bradford Central League. Information about club, and its fixtures and results over the years.
Bowling Baptist Cricket Club - History of a club founded in 1923, with preview of current season and archive of previous season's play.
Bradford Ladies Cricket Club - Information on fixtures, results and player statistics. Newsletter and message board.
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Cricket Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Cricket
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Cricket "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Cricket
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Cricket The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Cricket
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Cricket "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 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Cricket
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Cricket Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings 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. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Cricket
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Cricket "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Cricket
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Cricket Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Cricket
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Cricket The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cricket
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Cricket Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Cricket
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Cricket Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Cricket
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Cricket Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Cricket
