The Tutankhamun Exhibition - Recreation of the tomb and treasures of King Tutankhamun. Virtual tour of some exhibits, with on-line shop and visitor information.
Keep Military Museum - Describes the facilities, forthcoming events, admission charges and opening times. An on-line shopping facility is available.
The Dinosaur Museum - Britain's only museum solely devoted to dinosaurs, full of life size displays and simulations. Visitor information, including schools service.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Arts and Entertainment Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Arts and Entertainment
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Arts and Entertainment
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Arts and Entertainment Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Arts and Entertainment
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "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) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Arts and Entertainment It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Arts and Entertainment
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) >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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 Arts and Entertainment "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Arts and Entertainment
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Arts and Entertainment The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Arts and Entertainment Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Arts and Entertainment 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 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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Arts and Entertainment
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Arts and Entertainment Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Arts and Entertainment
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Arts and Entertainment
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last 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 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment
