Greenisland Boys Football Club - Featuring the Munchkins (7-9 yrs) and the U10's to U14's. Plus weekly results, club history and child policies.
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Greenisland Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Greenisland
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Greenisland Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Greenisland
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Greenisland Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Greenisland
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Greenisland "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Greenisland
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Greenisland "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Greenisland
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Greenisland Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Greenisland
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Greenisland "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Greenisland
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Greenisland "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Greenisland
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Greenisland Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Greenisland
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Greenisland The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Greenisland
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Greenisland Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Greenisland
