Secret Garden by Hildegard Günzel - Official page of German doll master features pictures of exhibit collection including bears, wax over porcelain dolls, and busts. Including information on Museum of Doll Art exhibition.
City Map Duisburg - Zoomable map with street index, locations of businesses and of public buildings. [Requires Flash]
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Duisburg When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Duisburg
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Duisburg Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Duisburg
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Duisburg "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Duisburg
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Duisburg Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Duisburg
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Duisburg He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Duisburg
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Duisburg Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Duisburg
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Duisburg Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Duisburg
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Duisburg "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Duisburg
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Duisburg blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Duisburg
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Duisburg I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Duisburg
"Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Duisburg A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana 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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Duisburg
