Ulster Museum - Location and details of the free attractions which include collections and displays of art, fine art, botany, zoology, geology, antiquities and local history, as well as periodic special exhibitions and lectures.
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something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Museums I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Museums
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Museums I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Museums
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Museums If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Museums
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Museums Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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.
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"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Museums You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Museums
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Museums 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. Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Museums
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Museums Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Museums
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Museums Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Museums
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Museums Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Museums
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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Museums The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Museums
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Museums 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Museums
