Meraner Land - Information about villages, accommodation, events, sightseeing and activities in the Merano region.
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Travel and Tourism Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Travel and Tourism "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Travel and Tourism
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Travel and Tourism
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Travel and Tourism Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Travel and Tourism History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Travel and Tourism "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Travel and Tourism
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Travel and Tourism The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Travel and Tourism
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Travel and Tourism
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Travel and Tourism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Travel and Tourism "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
