Camping Le Bivouac - Camping site situated between Gruyères and Montreux. Ideal base for walking and climbing.
Pictures of Charmey (Gruyère) - Image galleries of the town and local area, including cheese making and paragliding.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Fribourg I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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
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"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Fribourg I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Fribourg
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Fribourg "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Fribourg
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Fribourg You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Fribourg
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Fribourg If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Fribourg
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Fribourg Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Fribourg
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Fribourg Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) 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
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Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Fribourg As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Fribourg
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Fribourg "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Fribourg
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Fribourg I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Fribourg
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fribourg Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Fribourg
