While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Tennis "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Tennis
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Tennis There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tennis
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Tennis I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Tennis
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Tennis Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Tennis
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Tennis Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Tennis There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tennis
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Tennis "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Tennis
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Tennis Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Tennis
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Tennis At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Tennis
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Tennis People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Tennis
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Tennis "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Tennis
