"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Museums "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Museums
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Museums I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Museums
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Museums Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Museums
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Museums Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Museums
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Museums "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Museums
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Museums That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Museums
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Museums "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Museums
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Museums "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Museums
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Museums Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Museums
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Museums "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Museums
