Romans' Emperor - A Romanian traditional hotel established in Sibiu in 1555, with a long list of very distinguished guests. Includes a short description of the hotel and interesting pictures.
Sibiu On-Line - Includes information about the town's history and self government, tourist attractions and economy, as well as a photo album and details about recent events.
Kirschbaum - Construction company for civil buildings. Includes a short presentation and related images.
The Brukenthal Museum - Located in the Brukenthal Palace, it has departments of both history and natural history.
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Sibiu As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Sibiu
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Sibiu May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Sibiu
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Sibiu We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Sibiu
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Sibiu The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Sibiu
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Sibiu Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sibiu
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Sibiu What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Sibiu
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Sibiu "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Sibiu
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Sibiu We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Sibiu
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sibiu "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Sibiu
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb >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 Sibiu History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Sibiu
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler 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 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Sibiu A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Sibiu
