The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Akureyri The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Akureyri
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Akureyri Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Akureyri
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Akureyri Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Akureyri
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Akureyri Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Akureyri
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Akureyri Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Akureyri
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Akureyri Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Akureyri
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Akureyri There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Akureyri
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison 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 I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Akureyri Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Akureyri
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Akureyri Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Akureyri
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Akureyri May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Akureyri
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "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) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Akureyri Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Akureyri
