Icelandic Philatelic Sales - Collecting of postage stamps from Iceland includes subscription information for new issues.
Hunting in Iceland - Includes contacts, photos, and information on hunting opportunities and guides.
Icelandic Alpine Club - An introduction to mountaineering in Iceland by Helgi Borg Johannsson.
The Icelandic Hunting Club - A hunting outfitter offering hunting packages on all available game in Iceland. Game species include reindeer, geese, ptarmigan, seabirds, seals and arctic fox.
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Recreation and Sports Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Recreation and Sports A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Recreation and Sports
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Recreation and Sports The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Recreation and Sports
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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Recreation and Sports If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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 Recreation and Sports
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Recreation and Sports
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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Recreation and Sports 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Recreation and Sports
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Recreation and Sports
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Recreation and Sports "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) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Recreation and Sports
