Erlenbach am Main - General information about the town in the Main river valley in Lower Franconia.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Erlenbach am Main A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Erlenbach am Main
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Erlenbach am Main Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Erlenbach am Main
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Erlenbach am Main The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Erlenbach am Main
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Erlenbach am Main I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Erlenbach am Main
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Erlenbach am Main Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Erlenbach am Main
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Erlenbach am Main The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "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 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Erlenbach am Main
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Erlenbach am Main "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Erlenbach am Main Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Erlenbach am Main
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Erlenbach am Main "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Erlenbach am Main
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Erlenbach am Main Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Erlenbach am Main
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Erlenbach am Main If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Erlenbach am Main
