Famous quotes containing the words lighted, tennis and/or courts:
“Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“Society always consists, in greatest part, of young and foolish persons. The old, who have seen through the hypocrisy of the courts and statesmen, die, and leave no wisdom to their sons. They believe their own newspaper, as their fathers did at their age.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)