Schloss Mittersill - Christian conference and study centre. With history of castle, volunteer and conference programme, forum and accommodation details.
Golfclub Salzburg - Contains introduction to club and courses and picture gallery. (Most other content in German.)
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Salzburg The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Salzburg
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl 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 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Salzburg A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Salzburg
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short 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 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Salzburg If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Salzburg
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Salzburg A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Salzburg "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Salzburg
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Salzburg He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Salzburg
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Salzburg Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Salzburg
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Salzburg What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Salzburg
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Salzburg "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Salzburg
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Salzburg They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "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) Salzburg
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Salzburg He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Salzburg