Russell Bretherton: Croquet Pages - Includes contact information on clubs, tournament results and croquet news from major UK newspapers.
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croquet "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Croquet
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Croquet The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Croquet
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Croquet "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Croquet
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ 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 Croquet "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Croquet
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Croquet An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Croquet
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Croquet The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Croquet
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Croquet Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Croquet
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Croquet There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Croquet
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Croquet One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Croquet
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Croquet I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Croquet
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton 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 You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Croquet Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Croquet
