Vis Nova Waterpolo - This B-Division team from Rome give their team history, roster, program and photographs.
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 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Waterpolo "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Waterpolo
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Waterpolo "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Waterpolo
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Waterpolo "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Waterpolo
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Nietzsche An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Waterpolo The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Waterpolo
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Waterpolo A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Waterpolo
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be 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 Waterpolo "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Waterpolo
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Waterpolo Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Waterpolo
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Waterpolo A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Waterpolo Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Waterpolo
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Waterpolo The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Waterpolo
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Waterpolo "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Waterpolo
