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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Travel and Tourism "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Travel and Tourism Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Travel and Tourism
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Travel and Tourism Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Travel and Tourism Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Travel and Tourism
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Travel and Tourism "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Travel and Tourism If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Travel and Tourism The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
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