Mastihari Village - General tips and information about the village, hotels, beaches, and photos.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Guides and Directories
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Guides and Directories "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Guides and Directories We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Guides and Directories
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Guides and Directories If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Guides and Directories
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Guides and Directories "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guides and Directories Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Guides and Directories
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Guides and Directories
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Guides and Directories The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "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) Guides and Directories
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "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) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Guides and Directories
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Guides and Directories There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Guides and Directories
