You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Museums blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Museums
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Museums If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Museums
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl >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 Museums 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 "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Museums 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Museums
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Museums If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Museums
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Museums We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "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 had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Museums "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Museums
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Museums "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Museums
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Museums In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Museums
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Museums "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Museums Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Museums
