Photo Gallery: Norway 2000 - Photographs by Phil Hammer of architectural details from historic buildings, with commentary.
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Architecture A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Architecture
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Architecture There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Architecture
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Architecture I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Architecture
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Architecture Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Architecture
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 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 Architecture Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Architecture
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Architecture The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Architecture
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Architecture "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Architecture
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Architecture "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Architecture
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Architecture Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Architecture
What's new? Most of my wife. Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Architecture A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Architecture
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Architecture There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Architecture
