Westerkappeln Facts - Information about the location, sights, history and town statistics. Photo gallery included. (German/English translations)
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Westerkappeln Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Westerkappeln
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Westerkappeln A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Westerkappeln
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Westerkappeln Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Westerkappeln
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Westerkappeln "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Westerkappeln
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Westerkappeln I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Westerkappeln
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Westerkappeln "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Westerkappeln
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Westerkappeln If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Westerkappeln
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Westerkappeln All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Westerkappeln
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Westerkappeln For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Westerkappeln
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Westerkappeln I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Westerkappeln
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "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 My other wife is beautiful. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Westerkappeln The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Westerkappeln
