Bulgarian Martenitsa - Describes the ancient tradition in the country concerning 1st of March.
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Traditions If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Traditions
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Traditions "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Traditions
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Traditions "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Traditions
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Traditions Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Traditions
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Traditions "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Traditions
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Traditions Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Traditions
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Traditions Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Traditions
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Traditions A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Man and wife make one fool. Traditions
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Traditions Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Traditions
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Traditions The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Traditions
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Traditions I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Traditions
