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"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "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) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Museums Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Museums
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Museums Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Museums
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Museums
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Museums Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Museums
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "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 If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Museums Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Museums
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Museums Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Museums
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Museums Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Museums Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Museums
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Museums None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin 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 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Museums Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Museums
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Museums You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 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 The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
