Living in Krakow - An informative page aimed mainly at foreigners living in Krakow - from the Krakow University of Economics.
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture "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) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Society and Culture Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Society and Culture
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Society and Culture
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Society and Culture
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Society and Culture
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "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) Society and Culture
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Society and Culture 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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Society and Culture
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Society and Culture The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Society and Culture Man and wife make one fool. Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
