Hauptschule in Weener (Ems) - High School (grade 7 - 10) in small town of Northern Germany. Pages are available in English.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Education
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Education Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Education
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Education If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Education
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Education Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Education
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Education
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Education
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Education Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Education
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Education
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Education Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Education 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Education
