Iceland Worldwide - What's on guide, an index of services in Iceland, along with photographic tours.
North Atlantic Hot-Spot - Recently produced video describing the geological history of Iceland. Helps students and tourists to understand the beautiful scenery of Iceland.
>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 Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Maps and Views "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Maps and Views
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Maps and Views The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Maps and Views "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Maps and Views
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Maps and Views Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Maps and Views Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Maps and Views
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Maps and Views Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Maps and Views
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Maps and Views
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Maps and Views "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Maps and Views
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Maps and Views Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Maps and Views
