Bydgoszcz - Official site of the city of Bydgoszcz. In Polish and English.
Pod Orlem Hotel - Located in the city centre, 3 restaurants: "Malinowa", "Kolumnowa" and "Mysliwska"; "Wiedenska" coffee shop, bistro, cocktail bar, salad bar.
Bydgoszcz in English - An e-mail discussion list and online message archive for English-speaking residents of Bydgoszcz, Poland.
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Bydgoszcz Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Bydgoszcz
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Bydgoszcz My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Bydgoszcz
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Bydgoszcz Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Bydgoszcz
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Bydgoszcz Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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
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If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Bydgoszcz Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Bydgoszcz
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Bydgoszcz "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Bydgoszcz
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Bydgoszcz An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Bydgoszcz
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 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bydgoszcz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Bydgoszcz 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Bydgoszcz
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Bydgoszcz I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Bydgoszcz
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Bydgoszcz If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
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