Tchoukball Association of Great Britain (TAGB) - Association founded in 1972. Site includes rules of the game (created by Swiss Dr.Hermann Brandt), diary of events and tchoukball clubs playing in Britain.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Tchoukball Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tchoukball
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Tchoukball Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Tchoukball
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Tchoukball Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Tchoukball
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Tchoukball The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Tchoukball
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Tchoukball The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Tchoukball
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "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) Tchoukball A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Tchoukball
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Tchoukball We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "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." Tchoukball
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Tchoukball Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Tchoukball
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Tchoukball Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Tchoukball
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Tchoukball Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 Tchoukball
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "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) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Tchoukball A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Tchoukball
