Salten reiseliv - Tourist information for the counties Fauske, Saltdal and Sørfold, including events, attractions, and accommodations.
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "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) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Nordland Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Nordland
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Nordland Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Nordland
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Nordland "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Nordland
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Nordland Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Nordland
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Nordland When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Nordland
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Nordland Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Nordland
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Nordland The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Nordland
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Nordland Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Nordland
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Nordland Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Nordland
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley 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 Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Nordland Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Nordland
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Nordland Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Nordland
