Strike Zone - Unofficial site devoted to the Marauders, the East Midlands Wheelchair Rugby Club. Includes reports on other wheelchair rugby, photographs, links and interviews.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rugby If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Rugby
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rugby "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Rugby
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Rugby Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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-- J. W. Eagan Rugby
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
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-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Rugby Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Rugby
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Rugby "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
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It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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-- Albert Einstein Rugby "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Rugby
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Rugby "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Rugby
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
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over it and put your name at the top.
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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Rugby Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Rugby
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 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 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Rugby "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Rugby
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Rugby "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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Rugby
