City map Bochum - Zoomable city map with street directory and locations of businesses and public buildings.
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Bochum I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Bochum Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Bochum
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bochum The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Bochum
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Bochum Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Bochum
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Bochum He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Bochum
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Bochum I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) Bochum
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Bochum The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Bochum
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Bochum There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Bochum
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Bochum "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Bochum
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "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) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Bochum 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Bochum
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Bochum He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Bochum
