The London Tournament - Contains the history of the annual baseball tournament with current and previous winners.
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Events Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Events
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi 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
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Events It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Events
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Events The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Events
Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Events Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Events
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Events The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Events
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Events If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Events
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Events When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Events
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Events "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Events
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Events "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) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Events
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Events Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Events
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Events Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Events
