The Ryhiner Project : Digital map archives - Historic Maps of Switzerland in the digital map archives of the Ryhiner collection at municipal and university library of Berne
Finaroute - Route planning tool for Switzerland: with map and detailed localities listing.
Swissgeo - Interactive map of Switzerland. Locate any place just by the address.
Internet catalogue "Maps of Switzerland" - Digital maps of Switzerland on the Internet and in geographical information systems (GIS) by the map collection of the ETH-Library.
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-- Steven Wright It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Maps
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Maps I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Maps
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Maps 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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Maps
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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-- Indira Gandhi Maps
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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-- Anonymous Maps "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Maps
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Maps In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps
MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
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-- Voltaire Maps
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Maps I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Maps
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Maps I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Maps
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Maps blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Maps
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