Icepix - A gallery and a collection of pictures and texts detailing interesting sights and sites around Iceland. Includes Reykjavik, The Golden Circle, and The Blue Lagoon.
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman 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 "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 Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Photo Galleries Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Photo Galleries
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Photo Galleries "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Photo Galleries
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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Photo Galleries When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Photo Galleries
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Photo Galleries "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Photo Galleries
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Photo Galleries Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Photo Galleries
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Photo Galleries I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Photo Galleries
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Photo Galleries It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Photo Galleries
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Photo Galleries In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Photo Galleries
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Photo Galleries "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Photo Galleries
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole 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 Photo Galleries Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Photo Galleries
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Photo Galleries God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Photo Galleries
