Pontypool RFC - Details the history of Pontypool Rugby Club including coach and player profiles, fixtures, results, tables, and news.
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Recreation and Sports
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Recreation and Sports They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "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 A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Recreation and Sports
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "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) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Recreation and Sports It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Recreation and Sports
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton 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 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Recreation and Sports Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Recreation and Sports Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Recreation and Sports The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Recreation and Sports
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Recreation and Sports "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Recreation and Sports I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Recreation and Sports
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Recreation and Sports I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Recreation and Sports
