Alps Travel Pictures - Photos of the Swiss and Austrian Alps. Glaciers, Animals...
ETH Zurich Image Science Division - The Computer Vision Group's showroom and archives include numerous aerial and satellite views of Switzerland and her regions, partially for sale. As National Point of Contact (NPOC), the group maintains the national information and archive center for satellite images.
Swiss-Image.ch - Searchable database of free high-resolution pictures for media use, made available by Swiss tourism organisations, events and companies. The pictures are commented in German and English.
Switzerland on Imsat - Satellite images of Switzerland. Possibility to zoom on some regions.
Switzerland from Space - Annotate or zoom in on a picture taken, on October 10th, 1994 by astronauts on board the Space Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour, on mission STS-68, while passing over Western Switzerland.
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Maps and Views Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Maps and Views I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Maps and Views
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Maps and Views If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Maps and Views The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Maps and Views "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Maps and Views
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews What's new? Most of my wife. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan 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 I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Maps and Views "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi 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" Maps and Views
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Maps and Views "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Maps and Views
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Maps and Views Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Maps and Views
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Maps and Views History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Maps and Views
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Maps and Views "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Maps and Views
