Jurmala - A resort town with 150-year-old traditions. Includes information about the city's history and architecture, modern life and tourism infrastructure.
Jurmala - Latvia In Your Pocket - A travel guide for the city. Advises on getting there, where to stay, where to go out, what to see and do, useful addresses and tourist information.
May you never leave your marriage alive. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Jurmala How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Jurmala
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Jurmala "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Jurmala
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Jurmala "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Jurmala
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Jurmala The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Jurmala
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Jurmala "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Jurmala
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Jurmala Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Jurmala
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Jurmala "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Jurmala
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Jurmala 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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Jurmala
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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 Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Jurmala Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Jurmala
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Jurmala He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Jurmala
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Jurmala To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Jurmala
