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Vienna's Christmas Market - Details about the annual event in front of the City Hall. Includes dates the market is open and activities.
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-- Mark Twain If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Vienna I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Vienna
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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Vienna Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Vienna
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Vienna A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Vienna
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Vienna We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Vienna
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Vienna Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Vienna
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Vienna Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Vienna
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Vienna Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Vienna
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Vienna Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Vienna
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Vienna Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Vienna
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Man and wife make one fool. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Vienna "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Vienna
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Vienna "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Vienna
