Stedten-upon-Ilm - Holiday apartments for two to four persons in Stedten-upon-Ilm, near the forest in Thuringia.
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Kranichfeld The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Kranichfeld
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Kranichfeld You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Kranichfeld
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Kranichfeld "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Kranichfeld
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Kranichfeld "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Kranichfeld
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Kranichfeld "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kranichfeld
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "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) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kranichfeld If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Kranichfeld
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Kranichfeld The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Kranichfeld
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Kranichfeld Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Kranichfeld
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Kranichfeld Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Kranichfeld
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Kranichfeld Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Kranichfeld
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Kranichfeld You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Kranichfeld
