Steve's Travel Guides: Koper - Recollections, photographs, and travel tips for getting around this Slovenian town.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Koper America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Koper
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "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) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Koper I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Koper
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Koper "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Koper
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Koper A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Koper
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Koper Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Koper
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Koper All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Koper
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Koper "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Koper
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "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) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Koper I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Koper
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Koper Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Koper
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Koper 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 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Koper
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Koper Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Koper
