Lithuanian Genealogy Databank - Lithuanian surnames, census information, cemetery lists, church membership, as provided by the Lithuanian Global Genealogical Society.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Surnames "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Surnames
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Surnames Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Surnames
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Surnames Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Surnames
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Surnames A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 Surnames
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Surnames Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Surnames
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Surnames There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics 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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Surnames
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Surnames How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Surnames
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Surnames He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Surnames
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Surnames The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Surnames
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "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) 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Surnames If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Surnames
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Surnames There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Surnames
