City Cyclists - City Cyclists of The Association for Ecological Transportation in Poznañ.
Odra River Now! - Initiative to save Odra River - on the border of Poland and Germany.
Polish Patients Association - Medical malpractice victims organization, protection of pacients' rights, assistance to mistreated persons.
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Non-Governmental Organizations I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Non-Governmental Organizations
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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" Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Non-Governmental Organizations "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Non-Governmental Organizations
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Non-Governmental Organizations What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Non-Governmental Organizations
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Non-Governmental Organizations All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Non-Governmental Organizations
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Non-Governmental Organizations Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Non-Governmental Organizations
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Non-Governmental Organizations Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Non-Governmental Organizations
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Non-Governmental Organizations "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Non-Governmental Organizations
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Non-Governmental Organizations Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Non-Governmental Organizations
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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 Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Non-Governmental Organizations The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Non-Governmental Organizations
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Non-Governmental Organizations The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Non-Governmental Organizations
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Spinster: A bachelor's wife. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Non-Governmental Organizations 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. "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) 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 Non-Governmental Organizations
