Chippenham Cricket Club - Information on the teams, scores and results, youth team and coaching, and fixtures.
Chippenham Volleyball Club - Very brief information on the club and links to other clubs in the Wiltshire area.
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Recreation and Sports 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Recreation and Sports
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Recreation and Sports To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Recreation and Sports
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Recreation and Sports
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Recreation and Sports Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Recreation and Sports
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
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 The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Recreation and Sports
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Recreation and Sports Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Recreation and Sports Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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.
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All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Recreation and Sports A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Recreation and Sports Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Recreation and Sports
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
