Snorri Program - Did your ancestors come to the Americas from Iceland? Meet your relatives in Iceland, learn the Icelandic language. Month-long program in Iceland.
Runes and Pronunciation - Features the Icelandic alphabet, the Runic character equivalents of the alphabet and the pronunciation of vowels in Icelandic.
Icelandic Alphabet - Shows the difference between spelling a name in the usual western alphabet, the Icelandic alphabet and the traditional Runic based characters.
Iceland Genealogy - Guide to historic Iceland that is supported by a body of records dating back to the ninth century.
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Genealogy
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genealogy I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Genealogy
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "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 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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Genealogy Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Genealogy
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Genealogy There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman 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 Genealogy
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Genealogy Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Genealogy
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Genealogy "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Genealogy
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Genealogy Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Genealogy
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Genealogy The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Genealogy
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Genealogy Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Genealogy
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Genealogy "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Genealogy
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Genealogy A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Genealogy
