Renaissance Polish Warfare - Detailed information describing the military of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth in the years 1450 to 1699.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Military English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Military
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Military If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Military
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Military Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Military
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Military I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Military
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Military I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Military
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Military Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Military
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Military Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Military
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Military Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Military
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Military Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Military
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Military The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Military A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Military
