Moscow Kremlin - Virtual tour around the Kremlin and in the Armory Chamber. Great images.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Architecture Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Architecture
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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Architecture Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Architecture
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Architecture 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 It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Architecture
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Architecture Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Architecture
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Architecture "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Architecture
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Architecture I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Architecture
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Architecture "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Architecture
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Architecture "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Architecture
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Architecture They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Architecture
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Architecture Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Architecture
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Architecture Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Architecture
