Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum (German Maritime Museum) - Exhibits medieval shipping, shipping in the early modern period and the Industrial Age, fishing and whaling. Large indoor exhibition and some interesting ships in a small harbour.
Bremer Freimarkt - The offical site for this fairground festival.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Arts and Entertainment During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Arts and Entertainment
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Arts and Entertainment Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Arts and Entertainment "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Arts and Entertainment
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Arts and Entertainment In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Arts and Entertainment Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Arts and Entertainment
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Arts and Entertainment "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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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"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Arts and Entertainment
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Arts and Entertainment
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Arts and Entertainment
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Arts and Entertainment It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Arts and Entertainment
