"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Museums I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Museums
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Museums Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Museums
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Museums "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Museums
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Museums
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Museums "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Museums Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Museums
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Museums Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Museums
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Museums The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Spinster: A bachelor's wife. He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Museums
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Museums There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Museums
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Museums "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Museums
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Museums A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Museums
