Roland Garros - The stadium that hosts the French Open tournament.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Tennis "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Tennis The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Tennis
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Tennis Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Tennis
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Tennis "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Tennis
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Tennis I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Tennis
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Tennis Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Tennis
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Tennis I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Tennis
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Tennis Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Tennis
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "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 had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Tennis Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Tennis
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Tennis Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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" "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Tennis It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Tennis
