Rheinland-Pfalz/Rhineland-Palatinate history - An attempt to describe the history not only of Rhineland-Palatinate, but of several lineal states located along the middle Rhine River.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar History To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil History
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet History "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 History
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY History "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West History
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker History "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln History
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau 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 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson History Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) History
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot History The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) History
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 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 It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, History What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) History
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw History Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) History
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce History I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald History
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) History A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat History
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln History Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright History
