World English Institute - Elbasan - Church of Christ mission. Includes information on the missionaries, activities and the congregation.
Euro Travelling _ Elbasan - Includes images with history and information on the culture of the city.
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Society and Culture "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Society and Culture Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Society and Culture
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "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 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Society and Culture Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Society and Culture
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Society and Culture "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Society and Culture 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 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Society and Culture "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Society and Culture
blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Society and Culture Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Society and Culture
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Society and Culture If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Society and Culture
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill 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 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 "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture
