Buczacz by Norman Davies - Section on history of Buczacz during World War II quoted from Norman Davies (1996), Europe: A History, pp 1034-1035, Oxford University Press.
Buczacz Origins - Site dedicated to the Jewish heritage of Buchach, town in southern part of Ternopil oblast
Shmuel Agnon - Israeli writer, one of the greatest Hebrew novelists and short-story writers, Nobel prize winner, who was born in Buchach.
Buchach in photos - This page is about the Ukrainian city of Buchach. Describes the geographical location of Buchach, very rich information about the city and history of architectural relics in Buchach.
The mystical aura of Buchach, in Western Ukraine - Buchach history and photos by Natalia A. Feduschak, Special to the Kyiv Post KPNews.com, Kyiv, Ukraine, October 24, 2002. Article on the history of Buchach at ArtUkraine.com
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Buchach "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Buchach
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Buchach If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Buchach
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Buchach "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Buchach
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Buchach A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Buchach
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law .. 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Buchach The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Buchach
blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Buchach Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Buchach
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Buchach "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Buchach
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Buchach "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Buchach
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Buchach Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Buchach
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Buchach Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Buchach
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Buchach Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Buchach
