Hafaldan Youth Hostel - Offers comfortable and spacious accommodation in the town of Seydisfjord in East Iceland, where the car ferry Norröna arrives.
East Iceland - Travel tours to Iceland. Egilsstadir and reindeer. Karahnjukar wilderness. Vatnajokull national park. Cultural, adventure and eco tours.
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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies East Iceland We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw East Iceland
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 History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song East Iceland When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. East Iceland
The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with May you never leave your marriage alive. "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from East Iceland Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) East Iceland
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein East Iceland .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey East Iceland
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis East Iceland "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board East Iceland
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) East Iceland No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) East Iceland
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) May you never leave your marriage alive. East Iceland Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) East Iceland
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning East Iceland "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro East Iceland
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii East Iceland In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler East Iceland
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau East Iceland He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous East Iceland
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr East Iceland "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green East Iceland
