Original British Coursing Rules of Duke by Norfolk - List of the twenty rules as laid out by the Duke of Norfolk during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, which applied to all Greyhound coursing and were probably used for all Sighthounds as well.
Country pursuits today - Coursing - Description of the field sport of coursing - the testing of the speed and agility of the hound with the hare as quarry. From the Countryside Alliance.
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Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sighthounds "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Sighthounds
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Sighthounds It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Sighthounds
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Sighthounds Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Sighthounds
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "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) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Sighthounds Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Sighthounds
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Sighthounds Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Sighthounds
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Sighthounds "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Sighthounds
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Sighthounds In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sighthounds
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Sighthounds "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Sighthounds
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Sighthounds Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Sighthounds
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Sighthounds There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Sighthounds
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Sighthounds "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Sighthounds
