Chocen - The official site of town of Chocen. Includes a basic overview with information on history, tourism, culture, and sport.
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Chocen 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Chocen
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 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 A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Chocen 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 Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Chocen
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Chocen A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Chocen
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Chocen "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Chocen
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Chocen "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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Chocen
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Chocen I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Chocen
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) My other wife is beautiful. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Chocen Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Chocen
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Chocen 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 The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Chocen
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Chocen "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Chocen
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Chocen "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) >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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Chocen
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Chocen Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Chocen
