Cultural Calendar of Thuringia - Dates and details of events throughout the province, with contact information for local tourist offices.
Weimarer Land - Overview of tourism and ecomony of this regional district.
Tourism in Thuringia - Statewide tourist office offering an overview of attractions and places of interest categorised by type. Also offers accommodation and tours.
German Toy Road - Details of a tourist trail of toy museums and manufacturers between Franconia and Thuringia.
mini-a-thür - Pictures of miniature models of historical buildings found in this park in the Thuringian Forest.
Kyffhäuserkreis-Tourismus - Tourism in the district of Kyffhäuser. Details of places of interest and events.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Travel and Tourism
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Travel and Tourism "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Travel and Tourism
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman 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 Travel and Tourism Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Travel and Tourism
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Travel and Tourism It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Travel and Tourism
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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Travel and Tourism "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Travel and Tourism
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Travel and Tourism "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Travel and Tourism The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) Travel and Tourism
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "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) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Travel and Tourism
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Travel and Tourism Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Travel and Tourism Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Travel and Tourism
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Travel and Tourism Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
