National Association of Rescue Teams - Includes association objectives, accident prevention information, land and water rescue team information, programs, and contacts.
Samtökin '78 - Organization of lesbian and gay people in Iceland.
Federation of Icelandic Industries - Icelandic industry on the Web. Organization for Icelandic employers in manufacturing industries, crafts, software production and related services. Our mission is the creation of a more favorable climate for industrial enterprise in Iceland and support its interests home and abroad.
Icelandic Radio Amateurs - Complete resource includes club and membership information, repeater frequencies and locations, and services available to Icelandic Amateurs. [English - Islenske Sida]
Grand Lodge of Iceland - The Icelandic Order of Freemasons, established in Reykjavik. Feature history and lodge information. In Icelandic and English.
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Organizations "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Organizations
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Organizations Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Organizations
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Organizations Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Organizations
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Organizations Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Organizations
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Organizations Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Organizations
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Organizations
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Organizations "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Organizations
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Organizations There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "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) Organizations
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Organizations "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Organizations
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) 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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) 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,
Organizations "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Organizations
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 "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Organizations Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations
