Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Tennis Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Tennis
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola 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 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "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 Tennis Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Tennis
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tennis Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Tennis
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Tennis You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Tennis
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Tennis "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Tennis
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Tennis "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Tennis
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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tennis To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Tennis
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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Tennis I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Tennis
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Tennis If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tennis
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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Tennis "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tennis "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Tennis
