We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Museums "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Museums
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Museums "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Museums
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Museums I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Museums
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Museums Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Museums It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Museums
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Museums If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Museums
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Museums The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Museums
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Museums If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Museums
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Museums Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Museums
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Museums Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Museums
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Museums In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Museums
