Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Museums All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Museums
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Museums Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Museums
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Museums The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Museums
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Museums The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Museums
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Museums "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Museums
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Museums Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Museums
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Museums The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Museums
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Museums Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Museums
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Museums "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Museums
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Museums
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Museums He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Museums
