Swiss Genealogy on the Internet - Major Swiss Research site. Includes articles on Swiss history, list of famous Swiss, contact information, links to LDS archive index, family websites and Swiss surnames index.
Genealogy in (not only) French-speaking Switzerland - Presents available sources (13-20th century), their location, as well as addresses of libraries, genealogical societies and practical information [in en, fr]
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Genealogy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Genealogy
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Genealogy A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Genealogy
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Genealogy 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 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Genealogy
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Genealogy Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Genealogy
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Genealogy Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Genealogy
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Genealogy "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Genealogy
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Genealogy "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Genealogy
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Genealogy He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Genealogy
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Genealogy The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Genealogy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I 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 Genealogy When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Genealogy
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Genealogy Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Genealogy
