This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a fine disregard for therules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game.1823.

-Anonymous
ADPlaque at Rugby School.

It islike relying on the Flintstones foranunderstanding of the Stone Age.

-Armey, Dick (Richard Keith)
  On economic data from the Congressional Budget Office. In Time, 25 Nov.

   With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden and the heat Of the long day, and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return, All we have built do we discern.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Empedocles on Etna and Other Poems,'Morality'.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. This is the L's doing; it is marvellous in our eyes. This is the day which the Lhath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD Psalms118:22^4.

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and fora rockof offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 8:14.

Thou,O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his bellyand his thighs of brass.His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Thou sawest till that a stonewas cut out without hands, whichsmotetheimage upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Daniel 2:31^34.

   Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts untoyourchildren, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 7:9^11.

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,Hethat iswithout sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 8:7.

The first day of the weekcometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John 20:1.

Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first, Loving not, hating not, just choosing so. 162

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatis Personae,'Caliban upon Setebos', stanza1.

   A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

-Cheever,JohnWilliam
  Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech, 26 Mar, in devastated war-time London.

He holds him with his glittering eyeö The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years'child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone: He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.1.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.

-Cowper,William
  Poems,'The Progress of Error', l.285^8.

To create is first of all to destroy†there is and can be no such thing as authentic art until the bons trucs (whereby we are taught to see and imitate on canvas and in stone and by words this so-called world) are entirely and

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

   Dichoso el a¤  rbol que es apenas sensitivo, y ma¤  s la piedra dura porque e¤  sa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor ma¤  s grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain isgreater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.

-Dar|¤  o, Rube¤  n pseudonym of Fe¤  lixRube¤  nGarc|¤a Sarmiento
Cantos de vida y esperanza,'Lo fatal' ('Fatalism').

He was killed by theusual cabal: by himself, first of all; by the womanhe knew; by the womanhe did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone.

-Davies, Robertson
  Fifth Business, pt.6, ch.8.

Aye, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone.

-de la Mare,Walter
  'The Listeners'.

This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man's hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'The Hollow Men'.