Austerlitz 2005 - Information on the reenactment of the Battle of the Three Emperors and related topics.
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Tvarozna There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "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) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Tvarozna
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Tvarozna If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Tvarozna
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Tvarozna "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Tvarozna
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Tvarozna If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Tvarozna
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Tvarozna Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Tvarozna
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Tvarozna As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Tvarozna
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Tvarozna Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "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 Tvarozna
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Tvarozna When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Tvarozna
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Tvarozna "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Tvarozna
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Tvarozna "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Man and wife make one fool. Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Tvarozna
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Tvarozna >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 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Tvarozna
