Demel.net: Krakow - Offers travelogue from Scott Demel's trip to Krakow in 1997 and 1999. Lots of great pictures, as well as panoramic photos.
Krakow Zaprasza - Offers an extensive guide to the city of Krakow.
Cracow Life.com - A guide to hotels, bars, restaurants in Poland's "cultural capital." Also offers travel tips, weather, and news.
Amazing Krakow - Offers a guide to attractions in the city.
Cracovia - Pictures, text, and information about Krakow.
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Guides and Directories "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Guides and Directories Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
"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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Guides and Directories The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Guides and Directories
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Guides and Directories The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Guides and Directories
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Guides and Directories Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Guides and Directories
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Guides and Directories 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Guides and Directories
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Guides and Directories "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Guides and Directories
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Guides and Directories If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Guides and Directories Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Guides and Directories
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Guides and Directories The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Guides and Directories
