County of Zywiec - Regional, information, authorithies, map. (in Polish and English)
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Zywiec "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Zywiec
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Zywiec It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Zywiec
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Zywiec "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Zywiec
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Zywiec The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Zywiec
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 "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Zywiec "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Zywiec
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Zywiec Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Zywiec
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Zywiec It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Zywiec
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Zywiec Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr 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) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Zywiec
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Zywiec "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "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) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Zywiec
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Zywiec My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Zywiec
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 Zywiec The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Zywiec
