315 Polish WWII Fighter Squadron - Site commemorates polish WWII squadron, its pilots and its history. Contains pilots personal accounts and authentic photos.
The Polish Officer - Screenplay adaptation of the Alan Furst novel, "The Polish Officer". Work in progress.
Poles and Jews in World War Two - Polish/Jewish relations in eastern Poland under Soviet occupation (1939-1941) in the letters and memoirs of a family deported to the Gulag.
Polish Resistance in WWII - Armia Krajowa - Information centre. Articles, essays, photographs, further reading, useful addresses and links. (Also in Polish and French)
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein World War II "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi World War II
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) World War II Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe World War II
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude World War II If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW World War II
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell World War II If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais World War II
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain World War II "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland World War II
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett World War II Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) World War II
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 World War II "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford World War II
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale World War II Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A World War II
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden World War II Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" World War II
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan World War II "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber World War II
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William World War II "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" World War II
