Guide to Poland - Basic information about environment, history, people and places to see.
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Travel Guides "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Travel Guides
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher 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 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Travel Guides I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Travel Guides
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Travel Guides Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Travel Guides
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Travel Guides Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Travel Guides
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Travel Guides Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Travel Guides
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) 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 Travel Guides Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Travel Guides
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Travel Guides "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel Guides
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Travel Guides "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Travel Guides "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel Guides
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Travel Guides If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Travel Guides
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Travel Guides How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
