Low German Sayings

#1. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

#2. Part of most major religions is a clause stating that other religions are wrong.

Dan Zarrella

#3. The body can be a marvel of resiliency, a cactus when it comes to sleep - capable of surviving on mere drops.

Karen Russell

#4. The greater productivity of work under the division of labor is a unifying influence. It leads men to regard each other as comrades in a joint struggle for welfare, rather than as competitors in a struggle for existence. It makes friends out of enemies, peace out of war, society out of individuals.

Ludwig Von Mises

#5. He had to witness how a ginger German with a v-neck that almost went as low as his navel drew all the attention to himself.

John Duover

#6. The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

Ilka Chase

#7. The first reactions from Germany and German industry was quite negative. People right from the start were saying that we will steal technology and take it away and move the plant to India and use low cheap labor to compete.

Baba Kalyani

#8. My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.

Sigmar Gabriel

#9. If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

W. Kamau Bell

#10. Maybe. We're all equals at the dark gate, no? The sands run for us all. Life is but a flicker shouting into the jaws of eternity. But it seems so damned unfair!

Glen Cook

#11. The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot

Ann Brashares

#12. We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now ... when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

Storm Saulter