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Chaplaincy of Bonn and Cologne - Information for English-speaking, Anglican worship, at Saint Boniface and All Saints. Includes history, description of the churches and people, a mission statement, related links, newsletter and archive.
Museums of Cologne - Introduction to ten museums in the city and their collections of art and of archaeological, ethnological, and historical objects. In German and English.
Kölner Philharmonie - Details of this concert hall and resident orchestras, with searchable concert information and online ticket sales.
Overseas Club - Foreign language club, offers details of the club and benefits of membership.
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance. -- Al Bernstein "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cologne Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law Cologne "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe The society of women is the element of good manners. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Cologne Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grie As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Cologne A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. -- Samuel Johnson Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Saint Augustine Cologne Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Cologne Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." -- Anonymous Cologne If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens? - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Cologne If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Not to anticipate is already to moan. -- Leonardo da Vinci Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Cologne Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennet Cologne Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Cologne To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Cologne Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. -- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Cologne Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are. -- Gamaliel Bradford Cologne "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Cologne Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Cologne 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 "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower." "Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!" -- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cologne UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Cologne "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example. -- Anon. It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off! -- Douglas Jerold, 1858 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky Cologne "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) "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 Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Cologne Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. -- Oscar Wilde Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool. -- Kelvin Throop I Cologne Guide to understanding a net.addict's day: Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet. Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet. Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho 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 just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Cologne
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