Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Museums A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Museums
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Museums "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Museums
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 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 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) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Museums 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Museums
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Museums "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Museums Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Museums
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Museums Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Museums
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Museums Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Museums
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal 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 "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Museums The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley 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 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Museums
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Museums
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Museums A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
