Arkonia Warszawa, Polish Academic Fraternity - Warsaw-based student association. Our ideals are summed up in Latin words Veritate ac Labore, that mean Truth and Labor. History, customs, activities.
Lechia Poznan Students Fraternity - Students organization developing friendship among members, as well as patriotic and educational activities. History, customs, pictures.
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Politics The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Politics
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Politics Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Politics "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Politics
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Politics
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Politics I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Politics
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Politics Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Politics
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Politics It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Politics
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Politics "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Politics
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Politics Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Politics
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) What's new? Most of my wife. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Politics Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Politics
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Politics If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics
