Bonn International Center for Conversion - Supporting the process by which people, skills, technology, equipment, financial and economic resources are shifted from the military sector to civilian purposes.
Peace Research Information Unit Bonn - A national and international advice, information, and service centre covering the whole field of research into peace and conflict.
Museum of Modern Art - Presentation of the collections of contemporary german art as well as the changing exhibitions and events.
City map Bonn - Zoomable city map with street directory and locations of businesses and public buildings.
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bonn 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Bonn
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Bonn "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Bonn
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Bonn Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Bonn
"Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Bonn We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Bonn
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Bonn "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Bonn
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Bonn >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bonn
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Bonn >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Bonn
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 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Bonn Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Bonn
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Bonn The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Bonn
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht My other wife is beautiful. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 Bonn Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bonn
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Bonn Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Bonn
