Alps Travel Pictures - Photos of the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Many glaciers and mountain animals.
Burger Landmarks - Interactive map with virtual reality panoramas from Vienna, Salzburg and Werfen.
Austria Photo Gallery - A photo gallery with 125 pictures of Vienna, Salzburg and Innsbruck.
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Maps and Views Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Maps and Views
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Maps and Views May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "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) Maps and Views A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower 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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Maps and Views "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Maps and Views
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Maps and Views The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Man and wife make one fool. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Maps and Views The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Maps and Views
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Maps and Views
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Maps and Views "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Maps and Views
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Maps and Views "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Maps and Views
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 Maps and Views
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