It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.
– Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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The Fields of Athenry
Continue reading “The Fields of Athenry”Low lie, The Fields Of Athenry
– Pete St. John
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing,
It’s so lonely round the Fields of Athenry
Sheep
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly and steadily being consumed by sheep.
– Dave Barry
The Past
Continue reading “The Past”Njeriu nuk mund ta njohen të sotmen, nese nuk do të kujtoje të kaluaren.
– Kosovan saying
Göttingen
‘Extra Gottingam non est vita, si est vita non est ita.‘
– August Ludwig von Schlözer
The truth
“How often have I said to you
that when you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains,
however improbable,
must be the truth?”
– Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four”
Auld Lang Syne
“Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
and old lang syne?For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup!
and surely I’ll buy mine!
And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.”
– Robert Burns
Disappear
“There are two places in the world where men can most effectively disappear — the city of London and the South Seas.”
– Herman Melville
Fatal
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
– Mark Twain.
Traveller
“I have never found the companion
that was so companionable
as solitude.”
– Henry David Thoreau.