"Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as a diversion for the wealthy and titled Englishmen of the region, who had nothing better to do at the time but drink, belch and wear funny clothes."

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Source : Dan Jenkins (2015). “"YOU CALL IT SPORTS, BUT I SAY IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!"”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

Dan Jenkins

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“Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!”
“Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.”
“Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.”
“Women are often pushed into the idea that they write softer, more character-driven jokes.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me â€¦ with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.”
“A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.602, e-artnow
“America can't succeed unless you succeed. That is why I am running for president of the United States.”
“I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.”

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