Jewish Museum Berlin - Features information about the German-Jewish exhibits and displays.
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Museums Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Museums
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Museums Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Museums
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Museums I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Museums
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Museums The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Museums
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Museums After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Museums
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Museums Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Museums
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Museums Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Museums
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Museums The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Museums
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Museums 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 With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Museums
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Museums We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Museums
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Museums >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 Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Museums
