Forum.ch - Includes a database of hotels in Switzerland.
Hotelregister.com - The Swiss pages of this global travel portal contain a hotel database and a lot of useful information about transportation, cities, webcams, places of interest and events.
Rooms.ch - The group includes many delightful properties, providing an excellent alternative to luxury hotels. These are hotels where people meet in an atmosphere that attracts outdoor people.
Swiss Hotel Association - Industry association providing comprehensive hotel directory with online booking for more than 1000 hotels (in English/German/French/Italian).
SwissTours.ch - This directory contains a database of Swiss hotel addresses.
Best Western Swiss Hotels - A portfolio of over 60 individual character properties throughout Switzerland.
Hotel Reservation in Switzerland - Approximately 2000 Swiss Hotels sorted by cantons and cities. Online reservation system with final confirmation.
Holidays with Bär - Apartment rental in Arosa, Davos, Leukerbad, Bad Ragaz, Bad Scuol, and Cureglia. Locality and brief accommodation descriptions included.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Lodging "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lodging
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Lodging I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Lodging
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Lodging To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Lodging
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Lodging The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Lodging
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Lodging You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Lodging
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, 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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Lodging "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Lodging
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Lodging "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Lodging
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Lodging That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Lodging
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Lodging Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Lodging
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Lodging "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Lodging
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Lodging "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Lodging
