arthur ashe quotes

I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah



When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. ~John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911



Love's first snow-drop, virgin kiss. ~Robert Burns



Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ~Nicholas Chamfort



A relationship becomes easier when you realize that you don't have to be the one at fault to be the one who's sorry. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ~Winston Churchill



You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. ~Cindy Crawford



When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older. ~Author Unknown



Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet



And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet. ~Terri Guillemets



It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. ~Adlai Stevenson



Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination. ~Author Unknown



Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage. ~William Lloyd Garrison



There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker



God gave us all a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time. ~Robin Williams



Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. ~William Dean Howells



With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



When your heart speaks, take good notes. ~Judith Campbell



To save a man's life against his will is the same as killing him. ~Horace



Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. ~Irvin S. Cobb