Kotor - A virtual tour of this city. Requires Flash and Java.
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Kotor I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Kotor
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Kotor Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Kotor
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Kotor I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kotor
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Kotor "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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..." ( Kotor
"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..." ( That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Kotor "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Kotor
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Kotor In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac 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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Kotor
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Kotor "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Kotor
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Kotor Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "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 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Kotor
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Kotor Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Kotor
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Kotor One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Kotor
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Kotor Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) 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 Kotor
