Kim Aaen's photogallery - Photo's of birds, spiders, amphibians, butterflies and dragonflies.
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Science and Environment
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Science and Environment Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Science and Environment "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Science and Environment
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Science and Environment The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Science and Environment
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Science and Environment "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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 Science and Environment
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Science and Environment Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Science and Environment
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Science and Environment 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 "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Science and Environment
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Science and Environment When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Science and Environment
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Science and Environment "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Science and Environment
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Science and Environment Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
