Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Tennis
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tennis A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tennis
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Tennis Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Tennis
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Tennis "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Tennis
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Tennis Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Tennis
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Tennis The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Tennis
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Tennis Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Tennis
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Tennis Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Tennis
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Tennis To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tennis
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Tennis The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Tennis
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Tennis Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Tennis
