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Sir Alfred Munnings Art Museum - Castle House and its Collection includes a considerable number of his pictures purchased by the Trust to make the Collection representative of Munnings' life span of work. Additional pictures are borrowed each season from other museum and private collections. Colchester, Essex.
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Museums I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Museums "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Museums
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Museums History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Museums
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Museums Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Museums
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Museums In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Museums
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Museums
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Museums "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Museums
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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Museums It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Museums
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Museums A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Museums
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Museums Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Museums
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Museums "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Museums
