Quotes About Silesia

#1. A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.

Raymond T. McNally

#2. If this is Upper Silesia, what on earth must Lower Silesia be like?

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

Hjalmar Schacht

#4. I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.

Gunter Blobel

#5. Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

H.L. Mencken

#6. Once we forget those who have contributed time and effort in making an endeavor successful, we forget ourselves.

Beem Weeks

#7. Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

Betty White

#8. Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I was going to be a doctor, but I think my music allowed me to help more people than I could have done one-on-one as a psychologist. Just like other people's music really helped me.

Gloria Estefan

#10. The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Phillis Wheatley

#11. The only purpose of an engagement ring is to show you 'belong' to someone, and your man makes bank.

Jessica Valenti

#12. I think that to find out what love is really like, one must first make a mistake and then put it right.

Leo Tolstoy