Veps - Profile of the Veps people, from NUPI - Centre for Russian Studies.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Vepsian I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Vepsian
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Vepsian Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Vepsian
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Vepsian Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Vepsian
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Vepsian "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Vepsian
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Vepsian I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Vepsian
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Vepsian The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Vepsian
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Vepsian It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Vepsian
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Vepsian "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vepsian
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Vepsian "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Vepsian
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Vepsian It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Vepsian
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Vepsian It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes 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 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Vepsian
