Tirana Women's International Group - News, contacts, and calendar of events. A social, cultural and philanthropic organization of expatriate and Albanian women resident in Tirana.
Development of Urban Greenspaces - European Commission's URGE project presents Tirana as a reference city. Some general data about the city are offered and the green supply and the green policy is explained in detail.
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Society and Culture I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Society and Culture
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Society and Culture
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Society and Culture If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture
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 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Society and Culture
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Society and Culture The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Society and Culture
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Society and Culture Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Society and Culture
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Society and Culture
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese 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 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Society and Culture
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Society and Culture A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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