Cliff Morgan quotes

“Rugby is a nonsense, but a very serious nonsense.”
-- Cliff Morgan

#Serious Quotes #Rugby Quotes #Nonsense Quotes

“Sadly, the immortal Jackie Milburn died recently”
-- Cliff Morgan

#Immortal Quotes #Jackie Quotes

“The selection of a book-plate is such a serious matter.”

“Art is too serious to be taken seriously.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.14, Univ of California Press

“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”

“If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.”

“I don't know if it can happen, but apparently I might get divorced before I get married.”

“Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.”

Source : Chris Laidlaw (1973). “Mud in Your Eye: A Worm's Eye View of the Changing World of Rugby”

“At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.”

“I cut through the nonsense with the blinding light of truth.”

“Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect.”

“To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.”

Source : Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”