Serbian Lands - Serbian states in the Southeastern Europe and Mediterranean, represented according to historical, geographic, economic and political factors. By David Jovanovic.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) 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 is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Maps and Views When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Maps and Views
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Maps and Views As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Maps and Views
"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) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Maps and Views Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Maps and Views
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Maps and Views
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Maps and Views Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Maps and Views
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Maps and Views I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Maps and Views
"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) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Maps and Views
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Maps and Views Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Maps and Views "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "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..." ( Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Maps and Views Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Maps and Views
