Belfast Harlequins RFC - Senior club, now in Div 1 of the All Ireland League. Also with Men's and Women's hockey and cricket sections. Includes fixtures and contact information.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Rugby "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Rugby
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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ethical infants.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Rugby
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Rugby
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-- 'Doc' Edgerton Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Rugby "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Rugby
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Rugby "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Rugby
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Rugby Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Rugby
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Rugby "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Rugby
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Rugby "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Rugby
"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) "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) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Rugby "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Rugby
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Rugby An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Rugby
