bowls quotes

  Bowls is a young man's game which old men can play.

- David Bryant
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

All thy brim-filled bowls of fierce desire

- Richard Crashaw
'The Flaming Heart Upon the Book and Picture of Saint Teresa', collectedin Carmen Deo Nostro (publishedposthumously,1652).

It's naked child against hungry wolf; it's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; it's walking on a string across a gulf with millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; but the thing is daily done by manyand many a one; and we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

-John Davidson
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza16.

If the wild bowler thinks he bowls Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They too shall perish unconsoled. I am the batsman and the bat, I am the bowler and the ball, The umpire, the pavilion cat, The roller, pitch, and stumps and all. See Emerson 313:39.

- Andrew Lang
'Brahma'. Quoted by Alan Richardson in a letter to The Times, 18 May,1963.