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National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside - Controls various museums and galleries in and around Liverpool.
The Natural History Museum - Dating from around 1860, the museum contains the national collection of geology and natural sciences.
The Victoria and Albert Museum - Began in 1852. Holds a collection of fine and applied art and design, plus the museums of Childhood, Theatre and Wellington.
The Science Museum - Opened in 1857 to house collections of transport, agricultural machinery, photography, film and television.
The Imperial War Museum - Founded in 1917. Occupies the former site of Bedlam Mental Hospital. Records Commonwealth military operations since the First World War.
The Commonwealth Institute - Promotes the Commonwealth using exhibitions, collections, educational programmes, a Library and a Resource Centre.
The National Maritime Museum - Created in 1934 to demonstrate the seafaring history of the United Kingdom.
The National Army Museum - Created in 1960 to hold the history of the British army.
The Royal Air Force Museum - Holds the history of aviation in Britain.
The National Museums and Galleries of Wales - Amgueddfeydd ac Orielau Cenedlaethol Cymru. Comprised of various national Welsh museums and galleries.
The British Museum - Dating from at least 1753. Contains the national collection of antiquities, coins, medals and paper money.
24HourMuseum - Project sponsored by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport providing live information, news and links for over 2,500 museums, galleries and heritage attractions in the UK.
The Museum of London - Tells the story of London from prehistoric times to the present day. Overview, exhibitions, events, collections, community, archaeology, education, sales, press and photos.
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means. - Clarence Darrow, The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce National Museums I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. -- Katharine Hepburn National Museums Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous. -- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 National Museums "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat National Museums The better part of valor is discretion. -- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright National Museums Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen National Museums It's no credit to anyone to work to hard. -- Ed Howe The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet 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 National Museums "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. -- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison National Museums The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine "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) There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch National Museums "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. Augustine National Museums I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary National Museums An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. -- G. K. Chesterton Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. -- Chinese Proverb National Museums We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams National Museums "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan National Museums It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along National Museums Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it. -- Nick Mirov "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does. -- Groucho Marx National Museums He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H. H. Munro (Saki) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach National Museums "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery National Museums I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli. -- George Bus Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson 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 National Museums The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings Anyway, 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, ign In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland National Museums 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. -- Bob Perelman Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard National Museums There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. -- Woody Allen The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) National Museums
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