Chortkiv - An illustrated description of the historic and new buildings of this old city in western Ukraine, including the Kostel church and the castle. Map of the town.
Census data for Chortkiv (Czortkow) ca. 1900 - Area, total population, religious affiliation, primary language, land use and other statistics for Chortkiv in 1900 when Chortkiv was part of Austrian empire.
Photos of Chortkiv - Six large old photos of Chortkiv from pre-war period.
Old map of Chortkiv area - Old map of Chortkiv and Buchach area during Austrian period (1772 - 1918).
Chortkov (Chortkiv) - Coat of arms and short description of the town and its monuments.
"Czortkow 1919" book by Michal Klimecki - Book written in Polish by M. Klimecki on Ukrainian - Polish War events in Chortkiv in 1919, available at Polonia Bookstore Online.
Chortkov Home Page - Jewish genealogy project on Chortkiv. Town's Jewish heritage and history.
Chortkov Photo Gallery - Three pages of photos of Chortkiv by Thomas F. Weiss. Clickable thumbnail images of the town are both modern and historical.
Chortkiv Castle - Detailed historical description and photo and Chortkiv Castle
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Chortkiv It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Chortkiv
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Chortkiv The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Chortkiv
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) May you never leave your marriage alive. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Chortkiv Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Chortkiv
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Chortkiv The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Chortkiv
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Chortkiv "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Chortkiv
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Chortkiv "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Chortkiv
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Chortkiv Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Chortkiv
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Chortkiv If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Chortkiv
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Chortkiv "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Chortkiv
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Chortkiv He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Chortkiv
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Chortkiv The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Chortkiv
