Port Hel - fishing port, recreation centre, seat of fishing museum, last Polish bastion in 1939 with Nazi invader; location, satellite map, harbour map
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Hel "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 Hel
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hel "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Hel
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Hel It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Hel
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Hel Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Hel
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "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) Hel "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) 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 Hel
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Hel Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Hel
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Hel "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Hel
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Hel "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Hel
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hel Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Hel
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Hel "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Hel
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Hel Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Hel
