Historical Dictionary of Switzerland - Short English presentation of the encyclopedic work on Swiss history, that will be, and partially is, available in German, French and Italian.
Swiss history - Short notices on the epochs from BC to current days. Compiled by K. Augustiny, includes a chronological table.
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) History Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) History
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer History Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx History
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) History "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) History
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr History "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor History
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery History You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler History
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein History My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson History
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius 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, I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to History A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt History
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton History Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu History
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) History Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) History
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau History
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi History
