Visit Vratza - Includes photo gallery of the town and the region.
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Vratza "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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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"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Vratza Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vratza
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Vratza "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Vratza
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Vratza "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Vratza
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Vratza I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Vratza
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Vratza One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Vratza
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Vratza Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Vratza
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Vratza Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Vratza
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Vratza I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Vratza
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Vratza I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Vratza
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 thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Vratza "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Vratza
