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Riga Welcome - Information about the city's history, sightseeing, hotels, events, nightlife, entertainment, and museums.
Yahoo! Weather - Riga - Current day weather and 5 day forecast.
Virtual Riga - Official city guide offering virtual panoramas, photos, and video footage. Also provides business, transportation, lodging, and shopping directories.
Riga Map - Interactive map of Riga.
Weather News - Current and forcasted weather in Riga.
State Puppet Theatre of Latvia - Offers puppet stage plays. Page includes theatre schedule, list of actors and information on how to get tickets.
Youth Wind Orchestra - Auseklitis - Brass and reed instrument music band from the city's 6th high school. History of orchestra, events, photo gallery, guest book, contact information.
Song and Dance Festival- Riga 800 - Past event commemorating the city of Riga's 800 year anniversary. Includes schedule of events and list of participants.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time What's new? Most of my wife. The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. -- Rita Mae Brown Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Riga "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud Riga Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker "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..." ( If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw Riga I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid. -- Dorothy Parker Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl The first duty of love is to listen. -- Paul Tillich Riga Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton Riga Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. -- John Weitz, American Designer I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible. -- Margaret Mead Riga Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Aldous Huxley Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. -- Ralph Marston Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. -- Robert Orben "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Riga "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Riga 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 the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier. -- Judith Viorst "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it. -- Henny Youngman Riga Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Riga The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. -- Paula Poundstone Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. -- Socrates Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Riga A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one. -- Mae West 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. -Robert Frost (1874-1963) Riga "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Riga "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company. -- Charles Evans Hughes If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Riga We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent. -- Anatole France Work expands to fill the time available. -- PARKINSON'S LAW "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Riga Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Riga blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph Riga "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Riga Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind. -- James Graham Riga Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. -- Nancy Mitford Riga My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Riga Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Riga
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