The British School Warsaw - The British School Warsaw is a 3 - 16 co-educational school in Poland which offers a British Curriculum. It is owned by the Nord Anglia Education Group
The British Council - Poland - The British Council Poland home page. Working with partners in the UK, the British Council helps to share British expertise and talent with over 100 countries worldwide.
Polang: English Teachers in Poland - A list to support all English teachers (and ESL/TESL/EFL/TEFL) in Poland. Not affiliated with any business or organization.
FLaTTiC - Foreign Language Teacher Training College (FLaTTiC), Bialystok University, Bialystok, Poland.
Lektor - English language school in Mragowo, Mazury, the lake district of Poland.
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) English "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen English
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry English We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards English
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde English Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) English
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde English I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) English
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 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. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one English Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson English
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker English To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar English
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) English "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev English
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) English Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) English
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 Man and wife make one fool. If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Man and wife make one fool. When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill English "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal English
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill English The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor English
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West English Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) English
