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Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts. Football is a beastly game played by beasts.
~rugby quotes sayings by Henry Blaha, 1972
Rugby football is a game I can't claim absolutely to understand in all its niceties, if you know what I mean. I can follow the broad, general principles, of course. I mean to say, I know that the main scheme is to work the ball down the field somehow and deposit it over the line at the other end and that, in order to squalch this programme, each side is allowed to put in a certain amount of assault and battery and do things to its fellowman which, if done elsewhere, would result in fourteen days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench.
~inspirational sayings about American football quotes by P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves, 1930
American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
~rugby quotes by Sue Lawley, 1985
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
~famous quotes about American football by Chris Laidlaw, 1973
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.
~rugby sayings by Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
~rugby quotes sayings by Friedrich Nietzsche, The Dawn, 1881
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.
~good sayings about Adversity by Homer, Iliad
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
~rugby quotes by Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No. 79
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
~motivational quotes about American football sayings by Heywood Hale Brown
Do good and care not to whom.
~rugby sayings by Italian Proverb
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.
~rugby quotes sayings by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Books, Society and Solitude
We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
~good sayings about Promises by Francois duc de la Rochefoucauld
Freedom means choosing your burden.
~rugby quotes by Hephzibah Menuhin
I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.
~motivational quotes about Taxes sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, "I am not a crook." Jimmy Carter says, "I have lusted after women in my heart." President Reagan says, "I have just taken a urinalysis test, and I am not on dope."
~rugby sayings by Art Buchwald
A woman is a person who reaches for a chair when she answers the telephone.
~rugby quotes sayings by Milton Wright
There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion.
~good sayings about Quotations by Vladimir Nabokov
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.
~rugby quotes by Pieter Geyl, Debates With Historians
Night's black Mantle covers all alike.
~motivational quotes about Night sayings by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
~rugby sayings by William Drummond, Academical Questions
The tactical difference between Association Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former the ball is the missile, in the latter men are the missiles.
~rugby quotes sayings by Alfred E. Crawley, The Book of the Ball, 1913
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
~good sayings about Prayer by Guy H. King
The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity.
~rugby quotes by Maria Montessori
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~motivational quotes about Science sayings by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872
Grandchildren: the only people who can get more out of you than the IRS.
~rugby sayings by Gene Perret
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