Runes - Overview of Runes, a Rune calendar, folk stories, and picture gallery. Includes profile and photograph of the artist.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Artists Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Artists
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Artists Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Artists
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Artists Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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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 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Artists Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Artists
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Artists Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Artists
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Artists If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Artists
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Artists 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 Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Artists
If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Artists A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Artists
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost 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.
-- Winston Churchill Artists The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Artists
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Artists Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 Artists
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Artists Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Artists
