Windmills in Eastern Germany - Reinhard Krause provides photographs of all 703 remaining windmills in this area.
German Mill Database - A large database of existing and disappeared wind and watermills. Its goal is to find photographs and textual information about every mill.
Maulbronn Monastery - The most complete and best-preserved medieval monastery north of the Alps and hence a World Heritage Site. Brief history, 19th-century plan and photographs by Wolfgang M. Werner.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Architecture When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Architecture
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Architecture "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Architecture
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Architecture Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Architecture
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Architecture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Architecture
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Architecture Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Architecture
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Architecture The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Architecture
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt 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 The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with 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 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Architecture "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 Architecture
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Architecture Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Architecture
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Architecture Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Architecture
"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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Architecture If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Architecture
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Architecture There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Architecture
