Czluchow County (Kreis Schlochau) - Genealogist research site with maps, history, newsletter, surname directory, and place name changes for Kreis Schlochau, now Czluchow, Poland. Available in English and German.
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "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) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Czluchow Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Czluchow
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Czluchow Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Czluchow
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Czluchow There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Czluchow
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) 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 Czluchow A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Czluchow
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Czluchow If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Czluchow
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Czluchow Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Czluchow
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Czluchow Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Czluchow
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Czluchow "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Czluchow
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Czluchow A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Czluchow
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Czluchow Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Czluchow
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Czluchow Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Czluchow
