Albanian.com - Butrinti - Includes history with images of the ancient city also known as Bothrota from text entitled Butrinti Rediscovered by Prof. Zija Xholi of the University of Tirana.
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Butrint Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Butrint
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Butrint Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Butrint
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Butrint Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Butrint
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Butrint Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Butrint
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Butrint All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Butrint
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Butrint Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Butrint
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Butrint I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Butrint
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Butrint Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Butrint
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Butrint Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Butrint
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Butrint The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Butrint
My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Butrint The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Butrint
