Romanian Experience - Presents the locality from the perspective of a stranger. Includes a log of the trip, Romanian pictures, and data about orphans in this city.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sighisoara "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Sighisoara
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Sighisoara The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Sighisoara
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Sighisoara Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Sighisoara
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Sighisoara The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) Sighisoara
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Sighisoara We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Sighisoara
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sighisoara When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sighisoara
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Sighisoara Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Sighisoara
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Sighisoara Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Sighisoara
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sighisoara blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Sighisoara
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sighisoara Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Sighisoara
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Sighisoara Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Sighisoara
