Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Tennis "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Tennis
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Tennis Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tennis
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Tennis 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 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Tennis
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Tennis My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Tennis
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Tennis Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire 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 After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Tennis Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Tennis
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson 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 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Tennis
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Tennis "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Tennis
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Tennis 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 Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Tennis
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Tennis The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Tennis
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Tennis Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Tennis
