Samogitian Places of Interest - Descriptions of Samogitian towns. Presented by the Samogitian Cultural Association. (Click on an underlined letter to get to towns later in the alphabet.)
Shtetlinks site for Kalvarija - Shtetlink page giving Jewish historical background with pictures and resource material. Provided by JewishGen.
Yurburg (Jurbarkas) - Information hosted by the JewishGen, Shtetlinks project.
Kybart Yizkor Book - Kibart (Kybartai), Lithuania Yizkor Book. Provided by JewishGen.
Vilnius Gravesites - Notable people buried in the city from Find A Grave.
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Towns The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l 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 was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Towns
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Towns Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Towns
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Towns He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Towns
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Towns My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Towns
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Towns If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Towns
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Towns If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Towns
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Towns Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Towns
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Towns 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 Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Towns
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Towns Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron 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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Towns
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Towns To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Towns
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Towns When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Towns
