Appenzeller Echo - Band offering solo to 5 member performances using traditional Swiss instruments. Information on musical styles, members, tune samples, events list, image galleries, and contact details included.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Appenzell Inner Rhodes "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Appenzell Inner Rhodes
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Appenzell Inner Rhodes I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Appenzell Inner Rhodes
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Appenzell Inner Rhodes Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Appenzell Inner Rhodes
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "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) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Appenzell Inner Rhodes "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Appenzell Inner Rhodes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "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) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Appenzell Inner Rhodes Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Appenzell Inner Rhodes
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Appenzell Inner Rhodes This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Appenzell Inner Rhodes Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Appenzell Inner Rhodes
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Appenzell Inner Rhodes Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Appenzell Inner Rhodes
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Appenzell Inner Rhodes And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Appenzell Inner Rhodes
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Appenzell Inner Rhodes "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Appenzell Inner Rhodes
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Appenzell Inner Rhodes All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Appenzell Inner Rhodes
