Virtual Chisinau - Network of immigrants from the capital city of Moldova. Searchable database for friends and penpals.
Hotel Aorta Exhibitions - Featuring the works of international photographers. Sample photographs, information on the artists, and an exhibition agenda.
Public Transportation of Kishinev - Routes, schedules, route maps, pictures of buses, trolley-buses and routed vans in Kishinev, Republic of Moldova. Also includes maps of Moldova and Kishinev.
Chisinau Branch of the Environmental Movement of Moldova. - A nongovernmental, nonpolitical and nonprofit organization. It work to protect the environment. The main goal is to establish the natural balance between humans and Nature.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Chisinau An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Chisinau
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Chisinau Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Chisinau
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 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Chisinau If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Chisinau
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Chisinau "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Chisinau
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Chisinau Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Chisinau
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Chisinau Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Chisinau
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Chisinau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Chisinau
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Chisinau All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chisinau
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Chisinau To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Chisinau
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Chisinau Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Chisinau
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Chisinau My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Chisinau
