Society and Culture Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: Germany :::: States :::: Bavaria :::: Society and Culture ::

Society and Culture Links

Christian Outreach Centre Weilheim - Pentecostal church. Profile of the pastors, regular meeting times, facilities, style of worship, youth activities, information on other C.O.C. churches in Germany.
Martins Family from Franconia-Bavaria, Germany - The known roots are going back to Helmstadt (1605), Trennfeld (1652), Erlenbach (1878) and many more places in Germany. Members of the family moved to Australia (since 1864) and many to America / USA (since 1840).
Expats in Bavaria - Regional internet portal for the Expatriate in Bavaria.
High Point Baptist Church Vilseck~Schlicht - Located near the Army Vilseck Military community in Germany, offers a spiritual Home Away from Home for service members stationed overseas.
Alexander - Images, art, resume and general information on the author.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. -- P. J. O'Rourke He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. -- John Stuart Mill Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. -- John Adams Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working. - Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Society and Culture Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Society and Culture Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore: ? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. ? Work Society and Culture 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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -- Jules Combarieu Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Society and Culture "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us. -- Mme de Staël "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -- George S. Patton, Jr. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? -- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture "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) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest. -- H. L. Mencken We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen. -- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner 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 Society and Culture "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. -- Jackie Mason "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Society and Culture Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Society and Culture Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -- G. K. Chesterton "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used. -- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons Society and Culture Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity. -- George Bernard Shaw "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Society and Culture Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Society and Culture If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Society and Culture There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. -- Jane Austen She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James Society and Culture "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves. -- F. Emerson Andrews There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture 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 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |