SFSO - Agriculture and Forestry - Topical information from the national statistics office. Includes a vademecum to forests in Switzerland and agriculture in a nutshell.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Agriculture and Forestry 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Agriculture and Forestry
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Agriculture and Forestry All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Agriculture and Forestry
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Agriculture and Forestry "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Agriculture and Forestry "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Agriculture and Forestry
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Agriculture and Forestry Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Agriculture and Forestry
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Agriculture and Forestry I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Agriculture and Forestry
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Agriculture and Forestry 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Agriculture and Forestry
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev 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 The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Agriculture and Forestry Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Agriculture and Forestry
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Agriculture and Forestry "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Agriculture and Forestry
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Agriculture and Forestry It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Agriculture and Forestry
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Agriculture and Forestry Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Agriculture and Forestry
