"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Table Tennis My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Table Tennis
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Table Tennis "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) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Table Tennis
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "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) Table Tennis Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Table Tennis
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Table Tennis A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. What's new? Most of my wife. Table Tennis
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Table Tennis Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Table Tennis
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr 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 blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Table Tennis The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Table Tennis
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Table Tennis There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Table Tennis
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Table Tennis Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Table Tennis
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Table Tennis Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 Table Tennis
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Table Tennis I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Table Tennis
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Table Tennis It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Table Tennis
