Bavarian State Parliament - Introduction and overview to the Landtag site in German, with translation of the state constitution.
Glentleiten Open Air Museum - Situated on the foothills of the Alps, the museum conveys a living picture of Upper Bavaria's past and especially on farming.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Bavaria Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Bavaria
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Bavaria The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Bavaria
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Bavaria "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Bavaria
A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Bavaria "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Bavaria
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Bavaria Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Bavaria
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Bavaria "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Bavaria
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Bavaria Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Bavaria
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) 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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Bavaria A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Bavaria
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Bavaria blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Bavaria
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Bavaria "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Bavaria
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Bavaria Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Bavaria
