HM Customs & Excise Museum - Tells the story of smuggling and contraband from the 1700s to the present. Includes details of the collections and visitor information.
Liverpool Museum - Museum of science and antiquities. Details of collections and exhibitions, visitor information, and the work of their field archaeology unit.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Museums Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "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
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Museums One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Museums
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Museums When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Museums
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Museums A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Museums
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Museums You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Museums You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 Museums Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Museums
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Museums If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Museums
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Museums A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Museums
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Museums "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Museums
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Museums I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Museums
