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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Tennis "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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) Tennis
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Tennis "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Tennis
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Tennis In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Tennis
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Tennis Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tennis
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Tennis "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Tennis
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Man and wife make one fool. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Tennis The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Tennis
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Tennis Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Tennis
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Tennis The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Tennis
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Tennis "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Tennis
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Tennis I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Tennis
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Tennis "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Tennis
