Odin - Folktales and legends, folksongs and ancient literature.
Norwegian Folktales - Tales collected by Asbjornsen and Moe, with introduction.
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Mythology and Folklore The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Mythology and Folklore
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Mythology and Folklore Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Mythology and Folklore
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou 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" Mythology and Folklore "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Mythology and Folklore
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Mythology and Folklore The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Mythology and Folklore
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Mythology and Folklore "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Mythology and Folklore
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Mythology and Folklore Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Mythology and Folklore
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein My other wife is beautiful. Mythology and Folklore Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Mythology and Folklore
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mythology and Folklore If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Mythology and Folklore
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Mythology and Folklore I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Mythology and Folklore
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Mythology and Folklore Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Mythology and Folklore
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Mythology and Folklore Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Mythology and Folklore
