Polan Hotel - Situated near the city centre, restaurant, cafe, conference room.
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Zielona Gora "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Zielona Gora
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Zielona Gora I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Zielona Gora
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 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Zielona Gora We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Zielona Gora
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Zielona Gora Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Zielona Gora
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Zielona Gora "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Zielona Gora
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Zielona Gora A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Zielona Gora
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Zielona Gora Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Zielona Gora
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Zielona Gora "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Zielona Gora
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Zielona Gora "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Zielona Gora
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Zielona Gora There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Zielona Gora
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Zielona Gora blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Zielona Gora
