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 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Museums If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Museums
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Museums "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Museums
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Museums Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Museums
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Museums I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Museums
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Museums Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Museums
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton 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 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Museums "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Museums Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Museums Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Museums
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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' How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Museums Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "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) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Museums
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Museums
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Museums A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Museums
