Poland

Capital:            Warsaw
Government:     Parliamentary republic
Currency:         Złoty
Area:                 312,679 km2
Population:       38,116,000
Language:         Polish

Poland Quotes

A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
- Stanislaw Lem

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.
- Stanislaw Lem

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for. - Stanislaus I

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

A noisy cow gives little milk.
- Anonymous

Ink, if not used, will dry up.
- Anonymous

Nowadays you must go to heaven to meet an angel.
- Anonymous

Words must be weighed, not counted.
- Anonymous

The future starts today, not tomorrow.
- Pope John Paul II

The truth is not always the same as the majority decision.
- Pope John Paul II

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
- Pope John Paul II

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it
- Pope John Paul II

Spain Quotes

Spain

Capital:             Madrid
Government:    Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy
Currency:         Euro
Area:                504,030 km2
Population:       46,157,822
Language:        Spanish

Spain Quotes

Habit is stronger than reason.
- George Santayana

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
- Pablo Picasso

Action is the foundational key to all success.
- Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real.
- Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- Pablo Picasso

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
- Salvador Dalí

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
- George Santayana

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
- Pablo Casals

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
- Baltasar Gracian

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching. - Baltasar Gracian

Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
- Baltasar Gracian

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
- Baltasar Gracian

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sweden Quotes

Sweden

Capital:              Stockholm
Government:     Parliamentary democracy and Constitutional monarchy
Currency:          Swedish krona
Area:                 449,964 km2
Population:        9,234,209
Language:         Swedish

Sweden Quotes

Be yourself. The world worships the original.
- Ingrid Bergman

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
- Ingrid Bergman

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
- Ingrid Bergman

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
- Ellen Key

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
- Ellen Key

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
- Alfred Nobel

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
- August Strindberg

I dream, therefore I exist.
- August Strindberg

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.
- Anonymous

Eyes that do not cry, do not see.
- Anonymous

A life without love is like a year without summer.
- Anonymous

He who cannot keep silence cannot speak.
- Anonymous

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.
- Anonymous

Luck never gives; it only lends.
- Anonymous

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
- Anonymous

When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.
- Anonymous

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
- Anonymous

Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
- Anonymous

Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
- Anonymous

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
- Anonymous

Empty barrels make the most noise.
- Anonymous

Norway Quotes

Norway

Capital:             Oslo
Government:    Parliamentary democracy under constitutional monarchy
Currency:         Norwegian krone
Area:                385,252 km2
Population:       4,805,437
Language:        Norwegian

Norway Quotes

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik

The burden of disease falls on the poor.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
- Thor Heyerdahl

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
- Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
- Henrik Ibsen

The devil is compromise.
- Henrik Ibsen

Japan Quotes

Japan

Capital:             Tokyo
Government:     Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Currency:         Yen
Area:                 377,873 km2
Population:       127,333,002
Language:        Japanese

Japan Quotes

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
- Anonymous

It is a beggar's pride that he is not a thief.
- Anonymous

If one man praises you, a thousand will repeat the praise.
- Anonymous

The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
- Anonymous

If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all.
- Anonymous

Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.
- Anonymous

Money has no smell.
- Anonymous

One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Anonymous

Silence surpasses speech.
- Anonymous

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention.
- Anonymous

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.
- Soichiro Honda

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
- Akira Kurosawa

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
- Ayumi Hamasaki

The world is its own magic.
- Shunryu Suzuki

Every child grows; everything depends on the teacher.
- Shinichi Suzuki

Children learn to smile from their parents.
- Shinichi Suzuki

Beautiful tone, beautiful heart
- Shinichi Suzuki

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
- Daisaku Ikeda

Think with your whole body.
- Taisen Deshimaru

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.
- Taisen Deshimaru

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it. - Dogen

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.
- Haruki Murakami

Success is 99 percent failure.
- Soichiro Honda