Mazurian Lakes - North East of Poland - Country guide, the scenery of the lake district, history, the best holiday in Mragowo, The Great Mazurian Lakes.
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Warmia-Mazury I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Warmia-Mazury
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Warmia-Mazury Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Warmia-Mazury
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Warmia-Mazury If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Warmia-Mazury
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Warmia-Mazury "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) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Warmia-Mazury
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Warmia-Mazury The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Warmia-Mazury
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Warmia-Mazury 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 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Warmia-Mazury
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Warmia-Mazury "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Warmia-Mazury
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Warmia-Mazury The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 "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) Warmia-Mazury
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Warmia-Mazury Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Warmia-Mazury
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Warmia-Mazury "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Warmia-Mazury
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Warmia-Mazury Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Warmia-Mazury
