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"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Museums The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Museums
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Museums "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Museums
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Museums There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Museums
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Museums "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Museums
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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.
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Museums "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 If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Museums A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Museums
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Museums Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Museums Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Museums
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Museums "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Museums
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Museums "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Museums
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Museums It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Museums
