Bereck - A personal homepage by Bela Hengan about the town of Bereck, a mostly Hungarian populated village located in the Northeastern part of Covasna County, Transylvania. [English/Hungarian/Romanian]
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Bereck If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Bereck
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Bereck Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Bereck
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Bereck To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Bereck
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "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, Bereck 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 Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Bereck
"Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Bereck "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Bereck
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Bereck "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Bereck
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Bereck I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Bereck
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bereck The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Bereck
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Bereck They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Bereck
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Bereck There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Bereck
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bereck Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bereck
