Schniebel.com - Information on the village, near Kamenz, north-east of Dresden. With sections on its history and geography.
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Kamenz If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Kamenz
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Kamenz I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Kamenz
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Kamenz blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Kamenz
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Kamenz Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Kamenz
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Kamenz How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Kamenz
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Kamenz I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Kamenz
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "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 Kamenz Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Kamenz
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Kamenz The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Kamenz The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Kamenz
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Kamenz If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Kamenz
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Kamenz Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Kamenz
