Supreme Court of Iceland - Includes the court's history, photographs, background, and facilities.
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Government Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Government
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Government Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Government
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Government What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Government
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Government Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Government When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Government
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Government He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Government
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Government
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Government A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Government
"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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Government I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Government
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Government I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Government
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Government Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Government
