Villa Ksenija Guest House - 4-star hotel situated in a historic mansion in the central part of Daugavpils. Offers information about rooms and services. Location map and reservations are available.
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Daugavpils True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Daugavpils
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Daugavpils "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Daugavpils
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Daugavpils If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Daugavpils
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Daugavpils "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Daugavpils
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Daugavpils Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Daugavpils
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Daugavpils It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Daugavpils
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Daugavpils Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Daugavpils
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Daugavpils I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Daugavpils
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Daugavpils I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Daugavpils
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Daugavpils We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Daugavpils
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Daugavpils Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Daugavpils
