Rovinj - Comprehensive city tourist guide, useful information, photo gallery, addresses and events.
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Rovinj There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Rovinj
"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) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Rovinj A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Rovinj
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Rovinj My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Rovinj
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 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Rovinj There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Rovinj
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Rovinj "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Rovinj
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Rovinj Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Rovinj
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Rovinj Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Rovinj
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Rovinj "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Rovinj
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Rovinj When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"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) 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 Rovinj
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Rovinj It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Rovinj
"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) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Rovinj "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Rovinj
