National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina - Overview and history of the museum, as well as information on its archaeology, ethnology and natural history activities.
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Museums "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) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Museums
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Museums The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Museums
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Museums I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Museums
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Museums In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Museums
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Museums A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Museums
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Museums "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Museums
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Museums I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Museums Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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
machi "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Museums
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Museums Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Museums
