Angels Squash Club - A club with people of different nationalities living in Luxembourg. Information about the club, activities and the squash scene in Luxembourg.
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Recreation and Sports
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Recreation and Sports Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Recreation and Sports
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Recreation and Sports All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens 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 Recreation and Sports
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Recreation and Sports
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Recreation and Sports Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed 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 Recreation and Sports
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Recreation and Sports I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Recreation and Sports
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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) Recreation and Sports
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Recreation and Sports Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Recreation and Sports
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Recreation and Sports A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Recreation and Sports
