Shapka - Siberian Student Guides - Offers meeting on arrival, tours to Irkutsk, accommodations, trips to lake Baikal, and visits to local charities.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Irkutskaya Oblast A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Irkutskaya Oblast
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Irkutskaya Oblast Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Irkutskaya Oblast
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Irkutskaya Oblast He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Irkutskaya Oblast
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Irkutskaya Oblast "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Irkutskaya Oblast
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Irkutskaya Oblast "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) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Irkutskaya Oblast
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Irkutskaya Oblast Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Irkutskaya Oblast
.. 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 Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying 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 Irkutskaya Oblast A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Irkutskaya Oblast
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Irkutskaya Oblast If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Irkutskaya Oblast
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Irkutskaya Oblast The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Irkutskaya Oblast
Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Irkutskaya Oblast I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Irkutskaya Oblast
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Irkutskaya Oblast The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Irkutskaya Oblast
