Croatian money, stamps and other collectibles - The most comprehensive on-line catalogue of Croatian stamps through periods of SHS, NDH, SFRJ and Republic of Croatia. Fully illustrated.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Stamp Collecting The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Stamp Collecting
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Stamp Collecting "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Stamp Collecting
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Stamp Collecting "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Stamp Collecting
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Stamp Collecting "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Stamp Collecting
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Stamp Collecting Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Stamp Collecting
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Stamp Collecting "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Stamp Collecting
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Stamp Collecting Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Stamp Collecting
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Stamp Collecting Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Stamp Collecting
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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Stamp Collecting >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 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Stamp Collecting
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Stamp Collecting Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 Stamp Collecting
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Stamp Collecting Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Stamp Collecting
