Upper Rhine Online - A directory providing links about the border regions of the Haut Rhin / Alsace (France) - Baden Wuertemburg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland).
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Haut-Rhin Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Haut-Rhin
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Haut-Rhin A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Haut-Rhin
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Haut-Rhin You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Haut-Rhin
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Haut-Rhin In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Haut-Rhin
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Haut-Rhin Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Haut-Rhin
"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 Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Haut-Rhin The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Haut-Rhin
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Haut-Rhin Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Haut-Rhin
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Haut-Rhin A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Haut-Rhin
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Haut-Rhin Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Haut-Rhin
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Haut-Rhin Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Haut-Rhin
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Haut-Rhin Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. 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 People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Haut-Rhin
