Denis' Table Tennis World - Information about table tennis in Greece and other topics on technique and tactics. A very extensive reference on this popular game.
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Table Tennis America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Table Tennis
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein 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 Table Tennis I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Table Tennis
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Table Tennis Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Table Tennis
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Table Tennis Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Table Tennis
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Table Tennis There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Table Tennis
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Table Tennis Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Table Tennis
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Table Tennis Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Table Tennis
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Table Tennis Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Table Tennis
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Table Tennis You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside What's new? Most of my wife. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Table Tennis
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason 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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Table Tennis We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Table Tennis
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Table Tennis To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Table Tennis
