Seamus takes over at Ireland helm - The Belfast Telegraph reports on the election of Seamus McCusker as president of Tennis Ireland.
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Tennis We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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.
-- Crow Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Tennis
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Tennis "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Tennis
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Tennis I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Tennis
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Tennis "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Tennis Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Tennis
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tennis 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 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Tennis
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Tennis blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Tennis
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Tennis Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Tennis The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Tennis
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Tennis The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Tennis
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Tennis A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tennis
