Rippingale Rovers JFC - Junior football club, member of the Grantham Youth League. Information on results, fixtures events and team photographs.
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The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Rippingdale An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Rippingdale
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Rippingdale "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Rippingdale
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Rippingdale It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Rippingdale
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Rippingdale Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Rippingdale
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Rippingdale The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Rippingdale
Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Rippingdale Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Rippingdale
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Rippingdale The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rippingdale
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Rippingdale I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Rippingdale
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Rippingdale "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Rippingdale
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Rippingdale "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Rippingdale
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Rippingdale Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Rippingdale
