VR Vienna - Panorama photos of some of the city sights. (Requires Quicktime.)
Virtourist.com - Virtual tour of the city with accompanying text.
Visual Hugo - A large collection of photographs of the city with brief captions.
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Maps and Views Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Maps and Views In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Maps and Views
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 Maps and Views "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Maps and Views Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Maps and Views
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views
He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "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) Maps and Views Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Maps and Views
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Maps and Views The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Maps and Views
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Maps and Views "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Maps and Views
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Maps and Views The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Maps and Views
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views "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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "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 Maps and Views
