Bautzen - Historical overview of the last thousand years of the town, with photographs.
Bautzen - official site of the city. Information on the city in general, its history, facts and figures, Sorb culture and twinned cities available in English but navigation only in German.
Musikhaus F. G. Loebner - Offering handmade traditional Saxonian style brass instruments, such as trumpets and trombones. [D-02625 Bautzen]
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bautzen No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Bautzen
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Bautzen If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Bautzen
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Bautzen Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Bautzen
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Bautzen "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Bautzen
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Bautzen "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Bautzen
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Bautzen Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bautzen
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Bautzen "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Bautzen
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Bautzen Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Bautzen
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Bautzen It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Bautzen
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod 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 "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) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Bautzen Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "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" Bautzen
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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. 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 Bautzen Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Bautzen
