Nizami.narod.ru - Personal page of the Daghestani web designer. Portfolio, music, poetry, photographs.
Cudakhar - Darginian village in Daghestan. Features village information, history and a photo gallery.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Republic of Daghestan Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Republic of Daghestan
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Republic of Daghestan "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Republic of Daghestan
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Republic of Daghestan "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Republic of Daghestan
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Republic of Daghestan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Republic of Daghestan
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 Republic of Daghestan A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Republic of Daghestan
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Republic of Daghestan "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Republic of Daghestan
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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Republic of Daghestan A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Republic of Daghestan
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Republic of Daghestan 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Republic of Daghestan
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Republic of Daghestan If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Republic of Daghestan
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Republic of Daghestan The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Republic of Daghestan
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Republic of Daghestan Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Republic of Daghestan
