Poland - A Country Study - U.S. Library of Congress, Federal Research Division - Study of Poland
Polskie Konstytucje - Polish Constitutions - Texts of the Constitutions and other related documents, in Polish and English, starting from the famous Constitution of May 3, 1791.
Jozef Pilsudski: Messiah and Central European Federalist - A short biography by Patryk Dole: Life and political activities of one of the greatest figures in Central-European politics between the WWI and WWII. Includes historical maps, photographs and texts of speeches.
Jasna Góra - Poland's most famous religious site. Home of the Black Maddona
Spoils of War - Poland - Presents a historical chronicle of the cultural losses in Poland during the Second World War due to Nazi and Soviet occupations
The Union of Jadwiga and Jagiello - A short overview of the facts/history surrounding the marriage of Queen Jadwiga of Poland and King Jagiello of Lithuania.
Scots in Poland - Email discussion group concerning the history of Scots in Poland.
Dobra Szlachecka - History of the Ukrainian populated village of Dobra Szlachecka north of Sanok.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy History I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain History
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I History Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous History
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov History May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman History
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan History We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait History
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein History Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci History
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken History When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl History
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte History You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke History
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers History 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein History
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 History Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche History
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr History "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous History
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn History One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf History
