Business Culture in Norway - Find out about business culture, practices, protocol, customs and business etiquette in Norway.
Oslo 2000 - The 19th International Congress of Historical Sciences 6-13 August 2000, offers an extensive academic programme, as well as a multi-faced culture and tour programme.
Norwegian Art Information Center - KIK is a national documentation archive and information agency for professional contemporary Norwegian art, photography and crafts.
Husfliden: Norwegian Bunads - Pictures of whole bunads from the various counties in Norway, detailed photographs of accessories and bunad fabrics and comprehensive information on bunads in general.
Norwegian-American Bygdelagenes Fellesraad - The NABF is made up of the organizations of emigrant descendants from particular areas of Norway who are now living in North America. Each lag seeks to preserve and strengthen bonds with its home district or community-of-origin in Norway, much of it through genealogical research.
Culture Net Norway - The official gateway to Norwegian culture online with an extensive links directory.
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Society and Culture After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Society and Culture Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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 Society and Culture
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Society and Culture
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Society and Culture Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Society and Culture I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Society and Culture Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "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) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Society and Culture The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
