Antique maps of Iceland - Collection of the National and University Library of Iceland in digital format.
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Country Maps "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Country Maps
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Country Maps I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Country Maps
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Country Maps "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Country Maps
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Country Maps If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Country Maps
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Country Maps "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Country Maps
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is My other wife is beautiful. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Country Maps He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Country Maps
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Country Maps It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Country Maps
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Country Maps "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Country Maps
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Country Maps I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Country Maps
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Country Maps 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 "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Country Maps
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Country Maps America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Country Maps
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