Moldova in 2003 - Small image gallery from Chisinau and Moldova.
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Maps and Views "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Maps and Views Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Maps and Views Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Maps and Views
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus What's new? Most of my wife. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) May you never leave your marriage alive. The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Maps and Views "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Maps and Views
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) 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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Maps and Views Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Maps and Views
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Maps and Views It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maps and Views I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 Maps and Views
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "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) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Maps and Views Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Maps and Views
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
