Transylvania Today - A travel piece on Transylvania, Romania, by Jeffrey Tayler, including background history.
Transylvania Online Forum - Presents general data about former and present-day Transylvania. Contains information especially about the Saxons and the Saxon institutions.
Transylvania - Information on and pictures about Transylvania.
Transylvania Castle - The Count Kalnoky family returned to their property in Transylvania after 50 years of exile in the west. They offer it now as unusual travel destination for lovers of history, culture, nature and wildlife.
Tolerant Transylvania - Central Europe Review - Ethnic conflict drove the disturbingly violent disintegration of Yugoslavia. So why is ethnically heterogeneous Transylvania so stable?
Transylvania - Guide to Transylvania. Includes pictures, maps and history.
Transylvanian Page - Provides maps of the counties. Also gives details about the city of Deva.
Harghita County Council - Harghita county in Eastern Transylvania. Provides information about the local government, services and profile. [English/Romanian/German/Hungarian]
Hunedoara County Interactive Map - Hunedoara County, Transylvania, Romania, interactive maps with links to sites and local maps.
Sibiu County - Archeological discoveries atest the existence of material and spiritual life as far back as the Paleolithic. Examples of such findings are those made on the Sevis Valley and at Turnisor.
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Transylvania Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Transylvania
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Transylvania A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transylvania
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Transylvania "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Transylvania
"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." A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Transylvania We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Transylvania
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Transylvania "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transylvania
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Transylvania 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 It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Transylvania
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "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) Transylvania Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Transylvania
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Transylvania "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Transylvania
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Transylvania "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Transylvania
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William 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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Transylvania In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Transylvania
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Transylvania The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Transylvania
