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"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) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Tennis I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Tennis
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Tennis The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Tennis
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Tennis You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Tennis
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Tennis Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Tennis
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Tennis If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Tennis
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Tennis History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Tennis
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Tennis Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Tennis
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Tennis There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Tennis
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Tennis It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "... 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) Tennis
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tennis A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Tennis
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Tennis blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Tennis
