Sitno - Sitno is a small village in Poljica Principality. History, geography, churches, photos and links.
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar May you never leave your marriage alive. Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Sitno To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Sitno
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Sitno 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 While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Sitno
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Sitno An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Sitno
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Sitno They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Sitno
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Sitno Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sitno
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "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 "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Sitno It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sitno
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "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) Sitno "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Sitno
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Sitno It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) 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 Sitno
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Sitno We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Sitno
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Sitno Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Sitno
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Sitno This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Sitno
