Hansapark - Amusement park situated on the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Sylt - information for vacations on Germany's most famous Germany's North Sea island.
Ovendorf und Umgebung - Photos and historic description of Ovendorf, Luebeck, Ratekau, Travemuende and Berlin.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Travel and Tourism Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Travel and Tourism
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Travel and Tourism
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Travel and Tourism Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Travel and Tourism
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Travel and Tourism "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Travel and Tourism
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Travel and Tourism Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Travel and Tourism
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Travel and Tourism Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
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If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Travel and Tourism Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Travel and Tourism
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 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
