There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Anyway, 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,
ign Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Tennis In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Tennis The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Tennis
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Tennis "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Tennis
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Tennis "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Tennis
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Tennis "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 A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Tennis
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Tennis "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 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Tennis
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Tennis
"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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Tennis
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Tennis then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Tennis
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tennis I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Tennis
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Tennis You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign May you never leave your marriage alive. Tennis
