Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Tennis Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "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 Tennis
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Tennis "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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Tennis
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Tennis Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Tennis
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Tennis "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Tennis
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Tennis He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Tennis
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Tennis Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Tennis Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Tennis
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Tennis
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Tennis True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Tennis
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Tennis Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Tennis
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt 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" The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Tennis cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Tennis
