Stolac.info - Contains articles, historical background and photo galleries for the town located near Mostar. [English/Bosnian]
No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Stolac In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Stolac
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Stolac Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Stolac
.. 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 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Stolac I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Stolac
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Stolac Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Stolac
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Stolac In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Stolac What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Stolac
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Stolac I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Stolac
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Stolac Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Stolac
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Stolac The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Stolac
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Stolac A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Stolac
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Stolac "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Man and wife make one fool. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Stolac
