Lofoten Links - Links to information, pictures and maps of Lofoten Islands in northern Norway.
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Lofoten My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Lofoten
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Lofoten Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Lofoten
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Lofoten Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Lofoten
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Lofoten No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Lofoten
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Lofoten Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Lofoten
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Lofoten There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Lofoten
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Lofoten Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lofoten
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Lofoten Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Lofoten
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Lofoten People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Lofoten "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Lofoten
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Lofoten "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Lofoten
