Uman - Sister city of Davis - Photographs and information about the linked Californian city. Contact information and links to local sites in Davis are included.
Central Ukraine - Short note on the history and heritagen of the locality.
Historic Cultural Center of Braslav Hassids - The historic-cultural center in Uman, the burial place of Rabi Nachman, is one of the unique Judaic place in the world as to the number of pilgrims both religious Jews, ultra-orthodox, and non-believers, those Jews who not long ago denied the existence of the higher matter. Dozens of thousands of pilgrims come to this place to realize their innermost desires.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Uman Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Uman
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Uman 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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Uman
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Uman The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Uman
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Uman We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Uman
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Uman The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Uman
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Uman I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Uman
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Uman University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Uman
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Uman It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Uman
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Uman The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Uman
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Uman Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Uman
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Uman In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Uman
