Delmenhorst-Harpstedt Railway Enthusiasts - This society runs museum trains (steam and railcar) on two local railway lines in the area of Delmenhorst. The site shows some of the vehicles and links to the timetable.
Lower Saxony State Chancellery - Details the workings of state government, with information on the Minister President, local and regional politics.
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Lower Saxony Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Lower Saxony
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Lower Saxony It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Lower Saxony
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Lower Saxony Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Lower Saxony
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Lower Saxony Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Lower Saxony
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Lower Saxony 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 A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Lower Saxony
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Lower Saxony Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Lower Saxony
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Lower Saxony Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "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) Lower Saxony
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Lower Saxony Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Lower Saxony
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Lower Saxony "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Lower Saxony
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Lower Saxony "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Lower Saxony
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Lower Saxony Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Lower Saxony
