British Petanque Association (BPA) - Information about the sport itself plus news, event calendar, rules and FAQ. Directory of Region and Club sites.
Scottish Petanque Association - Lists local Clubs with clickable map; officials, rules, membership forms and 2002 Challenge information included.
Rory's Petanque web-site - Introduction to the sport, club directory and League results for: Lucas Software Solutions, Pennant Mid Week, Rhubarb Inns, Central Cambridge and Central Beers.
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Petanque "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Petanque
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Petanque He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Petanque
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Petanque In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Petanque
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Petanque The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Petanque
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Petanque Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Petanque
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Petanque Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Petanque
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Petanque Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Petanque
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Petanque 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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Petanque
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Petanque He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Petanque
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Petanque 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 Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Petanque
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Petanque 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Petanque
