Tirgoviste - Contains details about its position and its history. Includes a picture from the city.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Tirgoviste And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Tirgoviste
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tirgoviste Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Tirgoviste
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright 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 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Tirgoviste "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Tirgoviste
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Tirgoviste "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Tirgoviste You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tirgoviste
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Tirgoviste The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Tirgoviste
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Tirgoviste No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Tirgoviste
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Tirgoviste "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Tirgoviste
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Tirgoviste Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Tirgoviste
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Tirgoviste Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Tirgoviste
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Tirgoviste Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Tirgoviste
