Einsiedeln - Comprehensive touristic introduction to Einsiedeln, place of culture and place of pilgrimage with its imposing baroque church and the thousend-year-old benedictine abbey.
Brunnen Tourist Office - Brunnen, resort on the shores of Lake Lucerne, offers views of the landscape. Informs on accommodation, sport facilities, restaurants, and daytrips to destinations in the region.
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Schwyz "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Schwyz
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Schwyz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Schwyz
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Schwyz "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Schwyz
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Schwyz "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Schwyz
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Schwyz "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Schwyz
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Schwyz All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Schwyz
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Schwyz "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Schwyz
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Schwyz "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Schwyz
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Schwyz There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Schwyz
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Schwyz Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Schwyz
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "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) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Schwyz They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Schwyz
