Schwarzenberg - Free Republic for 42 Days - A newspaper article about a short period in 1945 when the town of Schwarzenberg had been overlooked by both Soviet and American troops.
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Schwarzenberg I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Schwarzenberg
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Schwarzenberg You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Schwarzenberg
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Schwarzenberg "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Schwarzenberg
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Schwarzenberg Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Schwarzenberg
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Schwarzenberg "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Schwarzenberg
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Schwarzenberg Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Schwarzenberg
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Schwarzenberg "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Schwarzenberg
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Schwarzenberg "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Schwarzenberg
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Schwarzenberg It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Schwarzenberg
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Schwarzenberg It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Schwarzenberg
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Schwarzenberg "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Schwarzenberg
