The Online Guide to Traditional Pub Games - Well known and the more unusual traditional pub games with descriptions, histories, participating pubs, leagues and links to societies and other resources. Includes other traditional British games as well.
The English Games - Tournament for traditional English and pub games including old favourites, obscure games from villages, and a few more modern inventions. Background and ticket information. Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire.
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Man and wife make one fool. Games Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Games
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Games Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Games
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Games I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Games
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Games "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "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) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Games
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Games To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Games
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Games It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Games
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf My other wife is beautiful. Games The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Games
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "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-) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Games Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Games
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Games "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Games
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Games This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Games
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Games We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "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) Games
