Buddhist European Directory - Germany - A directory of Buddhist centers and organizations. Includes contact information and listings in alphabetical order.
AZI Dojos in Germany - Listing of member centers of the International Zen Association in Germany.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Religion A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Religion
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Religion The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Religion
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Religion Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Religion
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Religion The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Religion
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Religion In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Religion
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Religion The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Religion
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "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) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Religion Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Religion
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Religion Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Religion
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Religion Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Religion
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Religion Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Religion
blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Religion 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 Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Religion
