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The Hunterian Museum - The oldest public museum in Scotland. The Web site is excellent with sections on a range of exhibits including the Romans in Scotland (map of the Antonine Wall) and Leckie Broth. Pages on dinosaurs and fossils found in Scotland also an eye-opener.
The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery - Exhibitions include Romans in Scotland during the first century AD, with emphasis on the Antonine Wall frontier.
Museums - A list of links to museums in the Glasgow area.
Pivotal Art - Gallery with regular exhibitions of paintings, photography and sculpture.
Scotlandart.com - Original artwork from artists based in Scotland. Facility to order online.
The Home Gallery - Showcases the work of over 20 Scottish artists.
Glasgow Museums - Offers information on Glasgow's 13 museums including what exhibitions are on display.
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. -- Sydney Smith Museums and Galleries Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Museums and Galleries I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings. -- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Museums and Galleries We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Museums and Galleries Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible. - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Museums and Galleries Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. -- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Museums and Galleries I could prove God statistically. -- George Gallup "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Museums and Galleries If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost a fortune "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Museums and Galleries "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Health food makes me sick. -- Calvin Trillin It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli Museums and Galleries There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "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) Museums and Galleries A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics. -- Maria Edgeworth In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the m First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi "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) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Museums and Galleries If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. -- Tryon Edwards The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Museums and Galleries For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "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) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. -- Anonymous Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Museums and Galleries Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules. -- Elting E. Morison Museums and Galleries True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. -- Henry David Thoreau "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Museums and Galleries The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it. -- Josephus Daniels Museums and Galleries After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house. -- Moliere "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) There's too much blood in my caffeine system. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Museums and Galleries A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. -- Gloria Steinem Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Museums and Galleries Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass. -- French Proverb "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Experience teaches only the teachable. -- Aldous Huxley Museums and Galleries Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Museums and Galleries "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen Museums and Galleries "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. -- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Museums and Galleries
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