Author of quotes: Vadim Sergeevich Shefner



I mentioned that communal apartment in which I now lived, was quiet and consisted of decent people. But, unfortunately, there is no barrel of honey in which there was not at least a teaspoon of tar. Lived in our apartment one wealthy woman who was said to have made a fortune by dishonest means. She had a lot of money, but she hid it and tried to live modestly. While she was very jealous, and when someone acquired some thing of envy she was sick for a day or two to a week, depending on the cost and quality of things. She hated all people, and the residents of the apartment for the eyes called her Baba.
№ 347670   Added MegaMozg 24-10-2018 / 01:16
After listening to me, this kind man said I hell. But as a consolation, he told me the story of the ancient Greek policriti, who from a young age I was damn lucky, but in his old age so not be in luck, that it tore the skin, and heartily wished me to I was all the way around.
Quote Explanation: Poligrat (574 BC - 522 BC) was a tyrant of the Greek island of Samos. Known for his ambitious construction and Maritime piracy. Poligrat was taken prisoner and was executed "in a way that don't want to describe" (either impaled, or crucified). His body was nailed to the cross. Brilliant fate of POLYCRETE how wonderful lucky was recorded in Herodotos the legend of his ring, which was processed Schiller in his ballad "Polycrates ring". Legends of antiquity say that Poligrat was extremely lucky person. Superstitious friends urged POLYCRETE to sacrifice something dear in order to appease the jealous gods. Then Poligrat threw into the sea a precious ring. But it was hours, and, cutting a freshly caught fish, the servants of the king took from its stomach the ring of its owner. Seeing this, the friends were horrified and hurried off to the court of POLYCRETE, because such happiness will sooner or later have to be changed a great trouble. Later this ring with
№ 347660   Added MegaMozg 24-10-2018 / 01:06
But in short, I was sick all spring, summer and all winter and miraculously survived. I think that if I was sick any one disease, it would die for sure. But I had three: meningitis, radiculitis and bilateral pleural effusion. While these diseases were arguing among themselves which of them would send me to the light, I took it and quietly recovered.
№ 347635   Added MegaMozg 23-10-2018 / 19:02
And sometimes I looked in the large mirror that stood in the walls, and seeing in them his own ugly reflection, sad thought that me, a man with five "no", will not love any one girl and when I grow up, I don't love no girl, and when I grow up, I don't love no woman. And when I die, if there is a hell and I'm gonna burn, I don't love no bitch, and if there is a heaven and there inspire me, not like me no Angela.
№ 347634   Added MegaMozg 23-10-2018 / 18:05
For example, when a mother told us: "Guys, pinhole-ka more wood!", Victor said, "Polygamous anthropomorphism and epidemic geocentrism at the level of the present day give rise in me thermodynamic and electrostatic demonic dualism that creates the impossibility of splitting firewood".
№ 347629   Added MegaMozg 23-10-2018 / 17:14
Never disappoint the Man, unless warranted by special circumstances. The weakness of good People does not make them bad People.
№ 347527   Added MegaMozg 22-10-2018 / 00:18
If a sighted person goes to the abyss - stopped him like a blind man.
№ 347516   Added MegaMozg 22-10-2018 / 00:07
Whether it was the aspiration to a higher goal.
- You can set yourself big goals and stay a loser - reasonably I said.
Well, maybe he's a loser - thoughtfully said Nina. - But a big setback little better luck.
- I don't know you, Nina. Luck is always luck, and failure is always a failure.
- I think not. One Man, for example, decided to climb to the top of the mountain, and the other is to become a swamp tussock. People did not come down to the top of the mountain rises still higher the one who stands on a marsh hummock.
№ 347473   Added MegaMozg 21-10-2018 / 21:13
- I don't know what happiness I am waiting.
I was somewhat surprised at these words, and even upset.
How can you expect happiness without knowing what happiness waiting for? Where is the logic?
№ 347441   Added MegaMozg 21-10-2018 / 20:05
I have lived your MIDGE abundance, my life is on the wane, and the day is near when my light ash cloud will fall from the White Tower on the flowers growing at its foot.
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A minimum Individual length of Life - the rule of longevity, guaranteed to every citizen of planet medicine and Society; described by the Author in the era of the MIDGE amounted to one hundred and ten years, but in fact the average life expectancy then was much higher.
№ 347410   Added MegaMozg 20-10-2018 / 22:20
Arguing with you is like a dead cow to milk...
№ 347408   Added MegaMozg 20-10-2018 / 22:18
I somehow thought that even though the war is scary, but everything happens postepennoe that a person enters in the war as a screw. And then the war drove me somewhere, like a nail in the wall. Impact - 22 June; kick - I'm in the barracks; shock - I in a freight car; shock - I'm in this here trench. Maybe another blow and the nail will come out somewhere on the other side of the bulkhead, where there is nothing: neither war nor me.
№ 177653   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 19:37
The shore of the former gradually disappears from memory, merged with the dark sea of forgetfulness. But the past holidays, like beacons, glowing behind and not go out. Of course, to be off and they are - but with us.
№ 177652   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 19:37
I have noticed that if there's some kind of big trouble, small trouble parted before her, willingly give way. Then they take her.
№ 177651   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 19:37
... Stood in the morning in August is warm, cloudy but without rain the weather is my favorite. I never liked Sunny days. Clear day something from you requires want you to be better than it actually is, and Leningrad gray day as if to say: nothing, nothing, you are for me and be good, we will somehow get along just fine.
№ 177650   Added MegaMozg 12-01-2017 / 19:37