Levoca - Official web site for the town, which includes tourist information and a brief history.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Levoca You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Levoca
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Levoca Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Levoca
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates "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) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Levoca No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Levoca
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Levoca "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Levoca
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Levoca They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Levoca
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Levoca "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Levoca
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Levoca "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) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Levoca
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Levoca No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Levoca
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Levoca I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Levoca
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Levoca That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Levoca
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Levoca People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Levoca
