Messe Essen - Trade fair in 18 halls with over 90,000 square metres of exhibition space.
Essen Aktuell - City guide to life and work in Essen.
The Bishopric of Essen - Introduction, history and treasures of the Roman Catholic diocese.
City Map of Essen - Zoomable map with street index, locations of businesses and of public buildings. [Requires Flash]
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Essen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Essen
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Essen All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Essen
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Essen You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Essen
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Essen He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Essen
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Essen You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Essen
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Essen The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Essen
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "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) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Essen Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Essen
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Essen Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Essen
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Essen 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 See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Essen
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Essen then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Essen
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Essen My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Essen
