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If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Museums "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Museums
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Museums Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Museums
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "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 Museums "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Museums
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Museums Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Museums
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Museums
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Museums "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Museums
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Museums Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Museums
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Museums 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 "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Museums
In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Museums What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Museums
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Museums "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Museums
