Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic - Information, photographs, and a chat room on this autonomous republic in southwestern Russia.
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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 Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
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 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus 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. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Kabardino-Balkaryan Republic
