Ebbw Vale RFC - Official site. Includes news archive, results and fixtures, information about the Supporters' Club, directions to the ground. Also includes results and fixtures for 21's and youth team.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Recreation and Sports "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Recreation and Sports
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Recreation and Sports Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Recreation and Sports
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "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) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Recreation and Sports Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Recreation and Sports "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Recreation and Sports
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 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, If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton 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 Recreation and Sports "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) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Recreation and Sports A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Recreation and Sports
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Recreation and Sports
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Recreation and Sports None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Recreation and Sports
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Recreation and Sports In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Recreation and Sports 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 Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
