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Canton of Glarus Tourism - Short introduction to the principal attractions of this canton boarded by high mountains and the Lake of Walenstadt (in German: Walensee).
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Glarus Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Glarus
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Glarus If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Glarus
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Glarus The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Glarus
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "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) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Glarus I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Glarus
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Glarus Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Glarus
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 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, The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Glarus "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
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He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Glarus We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Glarus
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Glarus The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Glarus
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Glarus Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Glarus
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Glarus I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Glarus
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Glarus The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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