Amateur Radio Club Trier - Contact information, photographs and details of events with an introduction to amateur radio and detection finding.
City of Trier - Site of the local tourist office. Includes accommodation, a restaurant finder and tour information with a downloadable city map.
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Trier To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Trier
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Trier Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "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) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trier
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Trier "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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" In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Trier
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Trier "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Trier
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "... 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) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Trier "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Trier
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Trier A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Trier
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Trier We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Trier
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Trier It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Trier
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "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 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 Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Trier Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Trier
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Trier An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Trier
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Trier 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Trier
