Hotel Foenix - Located in downtown Oslo, approximately 3 minutes walk from the central train and bus stations.
Rom i Oslo - Guesthouse offering photos, directions, and rates. Available in English, German, and Norwegian.
Hotel Bristol - Includes information about rooms, services, restaurants and conference facilities. Online reservations are available.
Radisson SAS Hotels in Oslo - Four hotels belonging to the Radisson SAS chain in Oslo. Includes description of dining and conference facilities, online hotel booking.
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Travel and Tourism If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Travel and Tourism
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
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-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Travel and Tourism Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism "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) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Travel and Tourism Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Travel and Tourism
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Travel and Tourism Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Travel and Tourism "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Travel and Tourism I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Travel and Tourism
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Travel and Tourism
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Travel and Tourism "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Travel and Tourism
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi What's new? Most of my wife. Travel and Tourism
