Roman Military Diploma - Photographs, summary, and historical data behind this rare artifact housed in the Regional Museum.
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Society and Culture
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Society and Culture
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Society and Culture "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Society and Culture If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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-- Vladimir Nabokov A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Society and Culture If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Society and Culture
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Society and Culture
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Marriage is a rest period between romances. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Society and Culture Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Society and Culture
