Restauracja Rycerska - Restaurant in the 14th century basement of the town hall offers typical Polish cuisine.
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Chojna The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Chojna
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Chojna The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Chojna
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Chojna There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Chojna
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Chojna Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Chojna
"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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Chojna Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Chojna
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Chojna Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Chojna
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "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) Chojna "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Chojna
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Chojna Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Chojna
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Chojna I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Chojna
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Chojna This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Chojna
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Chojna "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Chojna
