High Tatra Mountains of Europe - Cradle to a treasure of living art - The High Tatras and Carpathian Mountains of Europe have fostered a culturally unique lifestyle for the local people. See the art, architecture, and folklore of these hardy individuals against the magnificent backdrop of their landscape
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Mountains and Skiing "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Mountains and Skiing
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Mountains and Skiing How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Mountains and Skiing
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Mountains and Skiing If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Mountains and Skiing
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Mountains and Skiing In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Mountains and Skiing
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mountains and Skiing "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Mountains and Skiing
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Mountains and Skiing Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Mountains and Skiing
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Mountains and Skiing You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Mountains and Skiing
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Mountains and Skiing Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mountains and Skiing
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Mountains and Skiing As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Mountains and Skiing
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Mountains and Skiing Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Mountains and Skiing
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Mountains and Skiing "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Mountains and Skiing
