Eccles Rugby Football Club - A local rugby club web site providing club information, match reports and team training times. Lists history, introduction, location, news and social information.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Recreation and Sports
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "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-) Recreation and Sports "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Recreation and Sports The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Recreation and Sports As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Recreation and Sports
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Recreation and Sports Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports
"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) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Recreation and Sports If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Recreation and Sports
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Recreation and Sports 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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Recreation and Sports
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Recreation and Sports In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Recreation and Sports
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Recreation and Sports
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Recreation and Sports
