I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Museums "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Museums
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Museums "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Museums
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Museums Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Museums
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia 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 Museums The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Museums
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Museums "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Museums
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Museums "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Museums
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Museums Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Museums
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Museums
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Museums It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Museums
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) 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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Museums I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Museums
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Museums "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
