Colditz - Prison camp for Allied officers during Second World War. Virtual tour includes Escape Museum and the story of the Colditz glider built secretly during 1944.
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Colditz In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Colditz
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Colditz Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Colditz
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Colditz If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Colditz
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Colditz "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Colditz
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 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, Colditz If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Colditz
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 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Colditz People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Colditz
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Colditz "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Colditz
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Colditz Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Colditz
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Colditz "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Colditz
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Colditz Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Colditz
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Colditz A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Colditz
