Biblioteka Alexandria - The first international book review in Serbia. Its focus is on literature and on the history of contemporary ideas. It was founded in April 1998 by Vreme, a highly admired weekly magazine in Serbia.
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AZBUKUM - Centre for Serbian Language and Culture.
Srpska salata - How to make a Serbian cucumber-pepper salad.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Society and Culture Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "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) Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Society and Culture We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Society and Culture
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Society and Culture Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Society and Culture
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Society and Culture
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Society and Culture Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Man and wife make one fool. Society and Culture Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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
House God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Society and Culture
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Society and Culture Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture
