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Association of Local Authorities in Southern Iceland - Includes municipal information and contacts.
Office of School Affairs in South Iceland - Describes administrative divisions, schools and academic programs.
South Iceland - Popular destinations, FAQ, local companies, travel services, sports facilities, culture, and schools.
Gesthus - 11 cosy bungalows in Selfoss, S-Iceland.
Around and on Vatnajokull - Offers tours around and on Vatnajokull, the biggest glacier in Europe.
Mount Hekla Tours - Information about tours departing Hella, including schedule, facilities, photos, and history.
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words South Iceland For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition. -- Robert Briffault Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea South Iceland The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't." -- Ernest Rutherford It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today? --Loesje South Iceland During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) South Iceland Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" He who laughs, lasts. -- Mary Pettibone Poole No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society. -- C. Stacey Woods South Iceland The covers of this book are too far apart. -- Ambrose Bierce If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) South Iceland He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. -- Joseph Addison Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to vote for Colonel Sanders. -- Bob Inglis, 1995 Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat South Iceland 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 "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin South Iceland "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac South Iceland It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. -- Andre Gide One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.... -- Robert Boynton Youth is wasted on the young. -- George Bernard Shaw South Iceland Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. -- Helen Roland "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux South Iceland Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa South Iceland Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem. -- Booker T. Washington South Iceland Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Dr. Karl Menninger I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -- Mark Twain "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) South Iceland To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation. -- Latin Proverb "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan South Iceland "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. -- Diane Ackerman "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) South Iceland Live out of your imagination, not your history. -- Stephen Covey A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are. -- Gore Vidal blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru South Iceland I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) South Iceland "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. - Martin Fraquhar Tupper Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) South Iceland Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this bre The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx South Iceland There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant. --John Simon And gain is gain, however small. -- Robert Browning For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -- Rainer Maria Ril South Iceland There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude South Iceland
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