Pomak Folk Songs - Find a collection of songs and poems from the Pomaks of Thrace; includes references to the language and culture. In Greek and English.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Society and Culture "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Society and Culture
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "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 Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Society and Culture It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "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) Society and Culture
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Society and Culture
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Society and Culture 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 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 "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..." ( Society and Culture
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Society and Culture All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Society and Culture I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Society and Culture
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 "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Society and Culture Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Society and Culture
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Society and Culture Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Society and Culture
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Society and Culture Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Society and Culture
