The Polish Maritime Museum in Gdansk - Poland's maritime traditions as well as the evolution of her present-day maritime policies, economics, technology and culture
Hotels in Gdansk - Travel OnLine's database of Gdansk-area hotels.
Slawek's Art Gallery - Professional Science Fiction artwork by Slawek Wojtowicz.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Gdansk All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Gdansk
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Gdansk "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Gdansk
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Gdansk Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gdansk
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Gdansk Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Gdansk
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "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) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Gdansk The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Gdansk
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Gdansk To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Gdansk
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Gdansk Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Gdansk
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Gdansk 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) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Gdansk
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Gdansk I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Gdansk
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Gdansk A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gdansk
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Gdansk And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Gdansk
