This is how bored I am - A weblog about the daily life of Torbjørn M. Thowsen and some pictures.
Just blogging along - A weblog from Torgunn a Norwegian living in the Netherlands together with 6 Norwegian forrest cats.
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Weblogs There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Weblogs
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Weblogs A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Weblogs
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Weblogs If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Weblogs
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Weblogs "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Weblogs
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Weblogs "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Weblogs
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Weblogs And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Weblogs
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Weblogs A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Weblogs
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Weblogs Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Weblogs
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Weblogs Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Weblogs
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Weblogs "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Weblogs
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Weblogs A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Weblogs
