“If the praying mantis eats its partner after the sexual act, should we consider this the biological norm?”
—Elżbieta Radziszewska, government commissioner for equal treatment, in a discussion on lesbian and gay rights in Poland

“A prickly friendship is better than velvet-clad hatred.”
—Former president Aleksander Kwaśniewski on his sometimes-thorny relations with ex-prime minister Leszek Miller

“Our party leaders behave like the Polish national soccer team. They say that we played well as usual, but got our butts kicked again.”
—Jacek Kowalski, secretary of the Toruń branch of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, in a blog on how PiS leaders reacted to the recent presidential election results

“The man’s unusually big genitals, clearly visible under his trousers, caught the officers’ attention, so he was searched and arrested.”
—A customs officer from the Polish-Russian border crossing in Gronowo on a Kaliningrad resident who tried to leave Poland with three kilograms of amber hidden in his underwear

Compiled from press reports