Inkeri (Ingria) - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) member page for Ingria.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Ingrian 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Ingrian
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ingrian The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Ingrian
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ingrian When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Ingrian
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Ingrian "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) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Ingrian
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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) Ingrian When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ingrian
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) 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 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Ingrian "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Ingrian
"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) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Ingrian "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Ingrian
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Ingrian Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Ingrian
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Ingrian A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ingrian
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Ingrian A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Ingrian
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Ingrian Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George 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) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Ingrian
