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Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "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) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Museums Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Museums
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Museums Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Museums
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Museums Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Museums I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Museums
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Museums A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Museums
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Museums I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Museums
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Museums One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Museums
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Museums A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Museums
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Museums Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Museums
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Museums "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Museums
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Museums The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Museums
