Magical Krakow - Official site with information for tourists, such as guides to restaurants and hotels, as well as information about the city's culture, and history.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Krakow Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Krakow
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Krakow It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Krakow
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Krakow Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Krakow
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Krakow Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Krakow
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Krakow "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Krakow
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Krakow The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Krakow
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Krakow When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Krakow
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Krakow Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Krakow
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer 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 Krakow I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Krakow
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Krakow He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Krakow
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Krakow Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Krakow
