Norway's Languages - Article about the languages spoken and written in Norway, with emphasis on the two versions of Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk. Includes historical background.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Marriage is a rest period between romances. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Languages I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel 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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Languages
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Languages Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Languages
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Languages As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Languages
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Languages "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Languages
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Languages When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Languages
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Languages Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Languages
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Languages "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm May you never leave your marriage alive. Languages
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Languages Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Languages
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Languages Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "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) Languages
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Languages The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Languages
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Languages And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Languages
