The National Galleries of Scotland - Comprised of the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Dean Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
The National Gallery - Established 1824. Houses a permanent collection of western paintings from the 13th to 20th century.
National Portrait Gallery - Opened in 1896. Features portraits of the most famous people in British history.
The Tate Gallery - Erected in 1897. Comprises the national collection of British and 20th century painting.
National Museums of Scotland - Comprised of various national Scottish museums and collections. Now answerable to the Scottish Executive.
The Wallace Collection - Bequeathed in 1897. Based on the collection of Sir Richard Wallace.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Art blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Art
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Art My other wife is beautiful. "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Art
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "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) Art Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Art
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Art Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Art
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Art The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Art
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Art I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Art
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Art "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Art
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Art It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Art
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Art Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Art
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Art You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Art
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Art I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "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) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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