Cyndi's List - Germany - Germany category index of culture, genealogical sources, history, mailing lists, documents and on-line information.
Germanic Genealogy - Information on German genealogy organizations, surnames, mailing lists, databases, and German terminology.
Daddezio Directory - German family history information and guides to German sources of genealogical data.
Basic Research Outline for German Genealogy - Online guide for Americans of German descent researching families in Germany. Features online resources and book recommendations.
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes 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 Directories "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Directories "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Directories
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Directories Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Directories
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Directories Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Directories
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Directories "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Directories
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Directories I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Directories
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Directories 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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Directories
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Directories Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Directories
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Directories I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Directories
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Directories If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Directories
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Directories "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Directories
