BelCro - An association with intention to help to promote the relations between Belgium and Croatia.
South Australian Croatian Community - Community Council, Australian-Croatian Chamber, The Croatian Club Adelaide, Croatian Sports Centre and Croatian Soccer Club.
Finnish-Croatian Society - A friendship society. Features activities, contact informations and links.
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Overseas Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Overseas
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Overseas Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "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..." ( Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Overseas
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Overseas Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Overseas
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Overseas "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Overseas
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Overseas He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Overseas
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Overseas Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Overseas
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Overseas Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Overseas
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 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Overseas "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Overseas
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Overseas Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) May you never leave your marriage alive. Overseas
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Overseas 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Overseas
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Overseas "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Overseas
