Rezekne - Information about the city's culture, history, business, education, health care, transportation and tourism. Includes map, photo gallery with historic and modern photos. Lists local artists and other prominent people from the area.
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Rezekne If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Rezekne
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Rezekne 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Rezekne
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Rezekne Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Rezekne
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) 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 Rezekne There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Rezekne
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Rezekne I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale 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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Rezekne
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Rezekne Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Rezekne
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Rezekne We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Rezekne
My other wife is beautiful. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rezekne Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Rezekne There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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
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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 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx 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 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 Rezekne It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Rezekne
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Rezekne "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Rezekne
