"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Museums
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Museums A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Museums
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Museums
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Museums Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Museums
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Museums
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Museums "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Museums
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Museums What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Museums
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Museums If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Museums The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Museums
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Museums The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Museums
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis What's new? Most of my wife. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Museums Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Museums
