Pomeranian State Museum - Provides an overview of its exhibitions and informs about its location, opening times and fees.
Information about Greifswald - Describes the places of interest and offers a history outline and a gallery of photos. There is also an introduction to Caspar David Friedrich and his hometown.
Tiles-Art - Tile manufacturer. Description of products and design process with references.
Hansestadt Greifswald - An overview of the town, tourism, services and accommodation.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Greifswald Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset 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 Greifswald
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Greifswald We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Greifswald
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Greifswald "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Greifswald
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Greifswald "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Greifswald
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Greifswald Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Greifswald
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Greifswald All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Greifswald
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Greifswald Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Greifswald
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Greifswald Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Greifswald
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Greifswald "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Greifswald
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Greifswald The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Greifswald
blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Greifswald Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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