The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Museums "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Museums
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Museums Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Museums
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Museums Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Museums
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Museums It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Museums
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Museums Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou 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 Museums
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Museums Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Museums
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Museums I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Museums
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Museums
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Museums "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) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Museums
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "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) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Museums Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "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) Museums
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Museums If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Museums
