Kristinestad - General information about the city, including maps.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Kristinestad "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Kristinestad
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Kristinestad ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Kristinestad
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Kristinestad "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Kristinestad
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Kristinestad "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Kristinestad
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 Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good May you never leave your marriage alive. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Kristinestad "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Kristinestad
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Kristinestad Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Kristinestad
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Kristinestad The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kristinestad
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Kristinestad "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Kristinestad
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 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Kristinestad I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Kristinestad
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Kristinestad "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Kristinestad
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Kristinestad "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Kristinestad
