International Music and Art Foundation - Provides funding in the areas of arts and culture. Includes details of policies, recent grants, trustees and contact information.
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein - Art museum in Vaduz. Contains details of current exhibitions, collection, prices and location, as well as e-postcards and newsletter.
Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation - A non-profit organisation based in Vaduz. Contains details of programmes to digitise, preserve and print Islamic texts.
Cultural Policy Database - Overview of the relationship between culture and government with details of relevant laws, public expenditure and history.
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Society and Culture Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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." A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Society and Culture
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Society and Culture
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Society and Culture "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Society and Culture
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Society and Culture There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Man and wife make one fool. Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Society and Culture
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Society and Culture
