"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Tennis The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Tennis
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Tennis If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Tennis
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 Tennis Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Tennis
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tennis 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Tennis
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Tennis "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Tennis
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Tennis "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Tennis
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Tennis Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Tennis
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Tennis
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 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tennis "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Tennis
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Tennis "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Tennis
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Tennis "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Tennis
