Nord-Hedmark og Hedmarken Lag - An organization of descendants from the North Hedmark and Hedemarken area in Norway.
The Glomma Guide - Information about the river Glomma, from Elverum to the Aursunden lake, and the river Rena. Maps, tourist information and a photo gallery.
Skibladner - "Skibladner" is the pride of the inland. Launched in 1856, she is the world's oldest paddle steamer in scheduled service. Every summer, she draws her broad, creaming wake across the expanse of Lake Mjøsa.
Hedmark slektshistorielag - This is a project to build a database from the family history contained in the Hedmark Slektshistorielags periodicals, published from 1939 to the present day. All of the names in this database are available on this site in a searchable, alphabetical register.
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) May you never leave your marriage alive. Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Hedmark What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Hedmark
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Hedmark Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Hedmark
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Hedmark Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Hedmark
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Hedmark Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Hedmark
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Hedmark You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Hedmark
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Hedmark "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Hedmark
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Hedmark I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Hedmark
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Hedmark "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Hedmark
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Hedmark Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Hedmark
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Hedmark "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Hedmark
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Hedmark As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Hedmark
