Poland - Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Kidderminster. Includes photographs of the Polish Airforce Graves at St Cuthbert's Church in Donington, and information on the transportation to Poland of the body or ashes of deceased persons.
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Embassies and Consulates 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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Embassies and Consulates
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Embassies and Consulates "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
"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) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Embassies and Consulates
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Embassies and Consulates Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Embassies and Consulates
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Embassies and Consulates The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Embassies and Consulates
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Embassies and Consulates Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Embassies and Consulates
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Embassies and Consulates "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Embassies and Consulates
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 Embassies and Consulates Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Embassies and Consulates
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Embassies and Consulates A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Embassies and Consulates
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Embassies and Consulates "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Embassies and Consulates
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Embassies and Consulates What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Embassies and Consulates
