Tirana International School - Private non-profit institution that offers education in the English language for elementary students from 3 years through 13 years of age. Includes information on fees, philosophy and location.
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 I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education 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 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Education
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) 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 "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Education If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Education
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Education
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Education There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous 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" Education
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Education "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Education
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Education "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Education
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Education "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Education
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Education "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Education Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 Education
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Education 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Education
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Education Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
