Hotel Ortlerblick - Description of the hotel and its facilities. Located above Schluderns in the northern part of the Val Venosta/Vinschgau.
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Schluderns 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 Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Schluderns
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Schluderns "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Schluderns
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Schluderns "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Schluderns
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Schluderns Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Schluderns
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Schluderns The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Schluderns
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Schluderns Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Schluderns
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Schluderns You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Schluderns
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Schluderns I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Schluderns
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Schluderns We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Schluderns
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Schluderns I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Schluderns
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Schluderns I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 Schluderns
