Hollwege, Moorburg, Felde and Hollwegerfeld - History of the inhabitants of the villages, with listings of families involved, emigrants and photographs. Also includes textual extracts from the associated book in German.
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Westerstede One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Westerstede
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 Westerstede Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Westerstede
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Westerstede Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Westerstede
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Westerstede Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Westerstede
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Westerstede Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Westerstede
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Marriage is a rest period between romances. He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "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) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Westerstede Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Westerstede
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Westerstede Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Westerstede
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Westerstede A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Westerstede
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Westerstede Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Westerstede
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Westerstede Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Westerstede
"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) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Westerstede I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Westerstede
