It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Museums "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Museums
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Museums
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Museums You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Museums
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Museums "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Museums
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "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) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Museums Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Museums
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Museums "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Museums
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Museums Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Museums
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Museums My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Museums
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Museums Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Museums
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Museums A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Museums
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Museums 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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Museums
