District of Unna - Introduction to the Unna district, on the eastern edge of the Ruhr region. Covers the area's sights and recreational activities.
The GfW NRW - Overview of the work of the Economic Development Corporation of Nordrhein-Westfalen. News, case studies and investment opportunities.
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land North Rhine-Westphalia "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) North Rhine-Westphalia
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) North Rhine-Westphalia Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. North Rhine-Westphalia
There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law North Rhine-Westphalia University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz North Rhine-Westphalia
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves 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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 North Rhine-Westphalia Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 North Rhine-Westphalia
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous North Rhine-Westphalia Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Rhine-Westphalia
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier North Rhine-Westphalia "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) North Rhine-Westphalia
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe North Rhine-Westphalia Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) North Rhine-Westphalia
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche North Rhine-Westphalia "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry North Rhine-Westphalia
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" North Rhine-Westphalia The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky North Rhine-Westphalia
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning North Rhine-Westphalia Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde North Rhine-Westphalia
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. North Rhine-Westphalia When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) North Rhine-Westphalia
