Official site of Obninsk city - Includes map, municipal management information, education, science, and other information.
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Obninsk We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Obninsk
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Obninsk History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Obninsk
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Obninsk We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Obninsk
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Obninsk "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Obninsk
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Obninsk People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Obninsk
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Obninsk "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) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Obninsk
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Obninsk A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Obninsk
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Obninsk then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Obninsk
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Obninsk Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Obninsk
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obninsk "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Obninsk
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Obninsk Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Obninsk
