Bucova Village - A village on the Bistra river. Provides information on how to get there, lodging and recreation possibilities, guided tours in the Tarcu and Retezat Mountains. [English/Romanian/German/French]
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Bucova Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Bucova
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bucova I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Bucova
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Bucova All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Bucova
"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." "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Bucova You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Bucova
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Bucova The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Bucova
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Bucova Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Bucova
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Bucova Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Bucova Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Bucova
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Bucova Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Bucova
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Bucova Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Bucova
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Bucova Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Bucova
