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. 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 If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "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) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Museums "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Museums
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Museums The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Museums
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Museums As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Museums
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "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) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Museums "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Museums
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "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 Museums "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) 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 An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Museums
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Museums Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Museums
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Museums Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Museums
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg 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 find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Museums Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Museums
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Museums In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Museums Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Museums
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "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) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Museums Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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