Bayan's Bulgars - View on the ancestors of the Chuvash and Bulgars.
Chuvash - Profile of the Chuvash people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
Chuvash - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) member page for Chuvash.
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Chuvash Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Chuvash
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Chuvash Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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 Chuvash
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Chuvash In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Chuvash
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Chuvash Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Chuvash
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chuvash "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Chuvash
You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Chuvash Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Chuvash
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Chuvash "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Chuvash
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Chuvash You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chuvash
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Chuvash "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Chuvash
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Chuvash "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Chuvash
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Chuvash Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Chuvash
