Shkoder 900 - Personal page of Andi Sarci. Images and information on Shkoder in the early 20th Century. Includes information on the artist Chatin Sarachi.
Genti - Personal page on the history, culture and people. Includes poems and images.
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Society and Culture Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Society and Culture
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Society and Culture In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Society and Culture
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Society and Culture Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Society and Culture
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Society and Culture We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Society and Culture 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Society and Culture
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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Society and Culture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Society and Culture "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Society and Culture
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Society and Culture A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Society and Culture
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Society and Culture 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" We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Society and Culture Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Society and Culture
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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Society and Culture Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Society and Culture
