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Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Museums All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Museums
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Museums The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Museums There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Museums
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Museums My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Museums
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Museums Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Museums
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) 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 I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Museums To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Museums
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Museums You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Museums 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 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Museums
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 Nietzsche Museums Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Museums
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "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) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Museums I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Museums
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Museums Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Museums
