Hotel zur Post - 15th century hotel. Prices, information and impressions.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Glurns blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
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Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Glurns I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Glurns
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Glurns No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Glurns
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Glurns The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glurns
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "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) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Glurns I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Glurns
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Glurns If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Glurns
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Glurns Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Glurns
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Glurns The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Glurns
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Glurns "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Glurns
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Glurns Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Glurns
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Glurns Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Glurns
