Expo.02 - Swiss National exhibition. On line reservation.
Bern 1914 - Pictures from the Swiss national exhibition in Berne, 1914.
Gallerie 57 / 34.6 km - A cultural project from Pro Helvetia and Kulturmobil about the tunnel construction sites at Gotthard and Lötschberg. Description, events calendar.
sWISH* - The project stages the act of wishing in an exhibition at Expo.02. Online-wishing.
Golden Award of Montreux - Annual advertising festival. General information, presentation of winners.
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Events Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Events
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Events You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "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) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Events
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Events We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Events
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous 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 Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Events Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Events
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Events If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Events
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Events "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Events
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Events All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Events
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Events Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Events
"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) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Events "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Events
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Events ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Events
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Events The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Events
