Pommern / Pomerania - A Province of Prussia - Hans W. Schneider presents some aspects of the common history of Pomerania and Prussia, their absorption by Germany and their eventual demise.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson History That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Man and wife make one fool. If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein History
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd History "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin History
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) May you never leave your marriage alive. A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard History "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne History
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell History "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV History
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies History Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin History
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone History
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius History For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) History
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 We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th History The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good History
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m History Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce History
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais History When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) History
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe History May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor History
