I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Tennis I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Tennis
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Tennis Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Tennis
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Tennis Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Tennis
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Tennis Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Tennis
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tennis Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Tennis
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Tennis If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Tennis
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Tennis Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "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) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Tennis
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Tennis What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tennis
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Tennis "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Tennis
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Tennis
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Tennis It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Tennis
