"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Tennis "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Tennis
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Tennis If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Tennis
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Tennis Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Tennis
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Tennis 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 Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Tennis
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Tennis Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "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) Tennis
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Tennis If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Tennis The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Tennis
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Tennis Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Tennis
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Tennis Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Tennis
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Tennis There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Tennis
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Tennis All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Tennis
