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Northern Ireland Museums Council - Support museums in Northern Ireland in maintaining and improving their standards of collections care and service to the public and promoting a coherent framework of museum provision. Provides information about NIMC membership and services.
Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland - Includes news, details of educational resources and information about individual establishments.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. -- Sydney Smith It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Museums Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty. -- Adair Lara The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov Museums To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. -- Brendon Behan Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Museums I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Museums Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's chara Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley Museums I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. -- George Bird Evans Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. -- Peter Ustinov When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill To keep your marriage brimming With love in the marriage cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it, Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully Museums "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) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Museums If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Museums We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 Museums Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end] [text_start] "Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown "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) Museums Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal 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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen Museums "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Museums The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac 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 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Museums I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Museums Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels. -- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. -- Oscar Wilde Museums There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Museums In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr The best defense is a good offense. -- Anonymous Museums Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank. -- Alphonse Allais The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. -- Andy Warhol Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. -- N. D. Stice Museums I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it. -- Virginia Woolf "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Museums
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