Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary - Benedictine monks settled here in 996 and went on to convert the Hungarians. Official history, description and photo album of this World Heritage Site, still in monastic use.
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Architecture I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Architecture
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Architecture If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Architecture
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo 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 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Architecture A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Architecture
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Architecture Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Architecture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Architecture To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Architecture
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "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) Architecture Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Architecture
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Architecture Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Architecture
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Architecture Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Architecture
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 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 Architecture The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Architecture
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Architecture 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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Architecture
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Architecture "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Architecture
