Jewish Battalion of the Ukrainian Galician Army - History of the battalion, which after basic training in Ostapie, Skalat county, was sent to the Polish front and was in anti-Polish combat from 14 July 1919.
Skalat Home Page - Information, description, and photographs of Skalat.
Jewish Skalat - Everything about Jewish heritage of Skalat.
Welcome to Skalat - A few photos of Skalat and Skalat Jewish cemetery.
Skalat parish of Roman Catholic Church - Photo of the church in Stary Skalat (Old Skalat) and contact information for Skalat and other parishes in Ternopil region.
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Skalat "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Skalat
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Skalat We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Skalat
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Skalat "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Skalat
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Skalat Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Skalat
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Skalat 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 friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Skalat
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Skalat Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Skalat
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Skalat Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Skalat
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Skalat "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Skalat
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson 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
ha We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Skalat My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Skalat
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Skalat Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Skalat
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life 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 "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Skalat Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Skalat
