Hateg - Illustrated history, geography, and culture of the town of Hateg, the Hateg valley, and the Retezat mountains. Mostly in English, some pages in Romanian.
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Hateg The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Hateg
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Hateg "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 Hateg
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Hateg With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Hateg
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 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Hateg The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Hateg
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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. The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Hateg Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Hateg
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Hateg If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Hateg
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Hateg Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Hateg
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hateg A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Hateg
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Hateg It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Hateg
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Hateg I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Hateg
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Hateg I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Hateg
