Unicom Ltd ISP - Internet Service Provider in the city, offers dialup services.
Ani Lorak - Official fan site of Ani Lorak, the pop singer with origins from Chernivtsi.
Chernovtsi.com - Portal offering news, links, historical information, free email, forum, and travel and tourism information. In English and Russian.
Chernivtsi Gallery - Chernivtsi (Czernowitz) photo gallery, links, and old and modern postcards.
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Chernivtsi "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson 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 Chernivtsi
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Chernivtsi 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Chernivtsi
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Chernivtsi It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Chernivtsi
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Chernivtsi Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Chernivtsi
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) 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) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Chernivtsi Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Chernivtsi
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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 "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) Chernivtsi Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Chernivtsi
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Chernivtsi "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Chernivtsi
When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Chernivtsi "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "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 do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Chernivtsi 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 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Chernivtsi
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Chernivtsi Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Chernivtsi
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Chernivtsi Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student 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 "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Chernivtsi
