Map of Germany - Small map, 1997 showing the largest cities.
Germany Maps - Political map and transparent German state boundary map. Small GIF images of Germany maps, suitable for use on web pages, permitted by the author.
Aar Valley Railway - Images of stations and trains on the Aar valley railway in Germany
Germany Maps - A collection of maps of and guides to Germany from Maps Worldwide.
Panorama Cities - Interactive 360° panorama photographs of a number of German cities.
Taunusstein-Wehen, Pictures of a German city - A 3-part site with images and descriptions of Wehen, a community belonging to the city of Taunusstein in the German federal state of Hesse
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Maps and Views
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Maps and Views "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Maps and Views "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Maps and Views
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Maps and Views The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Maps and Views
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Maps and Views
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Maps and Views What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views
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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Maps and Views Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Maps and Views
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Maps and Views "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Maps and Views
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Maps and Views Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Maps and Views
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Maps and Views If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Maps and Views
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