Husid a Eyrarbakka - Folk museum of Arnessysla region, located in one of Iceland's oldest surviving buildings.
Baugsstadir Dairy Farm - The only dairyfarm in Iceland still with its original equipment.
The National Museum of Iceland - Overview of its departments, exhibitions, contact details for staff, and information about the research library.
Eyrarbakki Maritime Museum, Iceland - A collection of artifacts connected with fisheries, crafts, and culture. Includes opening times and exhibition information.
The Icelandic Saga Centre - Dedicated to the Icelandic tradition of story telling. Includes exhibition details, tour details, and tourist information.
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-- PARKINSON'S LAW I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museums No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Museums
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Museums With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Museums
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Museums Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Museums
Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Museums blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Museums
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Museums Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Museums
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Museums Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Museums
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Museums If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Museums
"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) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Museums If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Museums
"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) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Museums 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 "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Museums
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp 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 Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Museums All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Museums
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Museums All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Museums
