43, 44.

do not forbid what you cannot prevent.
-gaston meyer, chief editor of l’équipe, in 1960, in reference to the olympic games' quixotic quest to ensure that all of its athletes were pure amateurs

i think this maxim should be applied to gay marriage, and 'the war on drugs.' unfortunately, as ds showed me, it can also be applied to gun control.

(btw, this quote reminds me of quote 14, which was, interestingly, also part of a double-header.)

perhaps fame does something to the head, and to the heart; makes one bigger and the other smaller.
-the newspaper the kingsburg recorder, in a testimony about hometown hero, 1960 gold-medal decathlete rafer johnson (lauding him for not falling victim to the described phenomenon)

i got both of these quotes from the book rome 1960, by david maraniss.