Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Museums "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Museums
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "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) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Museums It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Museums
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Museums
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Museums "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Museums If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Museums
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Museums You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Museums
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo 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 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) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Museums
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Museums "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Museums
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Museums A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Museums
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "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) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Museums It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "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 He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Museums
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Museums "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
