Vukovar - Official site. Ancient Croatian city on the river Danube. History, overview of reconstruction efforts after the war.
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Vukovar "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Vukovar
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Vukovar "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) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Vukovar
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Vukovar "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) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Vukovar
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Vukovar The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Vukovar In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Vukovar
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Vukovar The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Vukovar
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Vukovar If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Vukovar
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Vukovar The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Vukovar
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Vukovar Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Vukovar
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Vukovar Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Vukovar
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Vukovar Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Vukovar
