"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Museums If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Museums
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Museums 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 "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Museums
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Museums "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Museums
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Museums Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Museums
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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Museums Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Museums
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Museums
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Museums "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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Museums
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Museums Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Museums Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Museums
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Museums A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous 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 Museums
