"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 fellow man which, if done elsewhere, would result in 14 days without the option, coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench."

-- P. G. Wodehouse

#Football Quotes #Strong Quotes #Mean Quotes

“For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.”
“You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.”
“I don't have to be concerned about everybody else's character.”

Source : Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. November 28, 2005.
“You're only a man! You've not our gifts! I can tell you! Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all them contradictory!”
“The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members”

Source : My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4
“Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.”
“I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.”
“I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.”

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