SB City Guide - Features general informations, history, culture and tradition, tourist informations, maps, traffic and weather, addresses, yellow pages, local media.
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Guides and Directories "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Guides and Directories
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Guides and Directories
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Guides and Directories Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Guides and Directories
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Guides and Directories 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 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Guides and Directories
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Guides and Directories All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Guides and Directories
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Guides and Directories "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Guides and Directories
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Guides and Directories A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Guides and Directories
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Guides and Directories I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Guides and Directories
