Diamond Way Buddhist Center of Moscow - Texts and links related to philosophy and practice of Tibetan Buddhism of the Karma Kagyu tradition, meditation schedule in the Moscow center, meditations, news.
Arkhangelskoye Museum - The jewel of Moscow architecture - maps, history, photos and list of excursions, exhibitions and concerts held in the museum.
MoscowOut.ru - Information about entertainment, pastime and leisure in Moscow.
LimeLight Theatre - Russian English-speaking theatre presents Russian actors in "The Twelfth Night" by W. Shakespeare. Information about actors, crew, online booking.
Antiques in Sophiyskaya Gallery - Offers antiques and objects of art, conducts art auction. Information about gallery, contact information.
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Arts and Entertainment "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Arts and Entertainment
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Arts and Entertainment The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Arts and Entertainment
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Arts and Entertainment We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Arts and Entertainment He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Arts and Entertainment
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Arts and Entertainment We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Arts and Entertainment
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Arts and Entertainment
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Arts and Entertainment
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Arts and Entertainment
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) 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 Arts and Entertainment "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Arts and Entertainment
