Destination Harstad - Useful information which will make your stay in Harstad and the surrounding area both memorable and exciting.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Harstad Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Harstad
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Harstad The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Harstad
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) 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 Harstad The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Harstad
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Harstad Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Harstad
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Harstad Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Harstad
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Harstad Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Harstad
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Harstad There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Harstad
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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Harstad "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Harstad
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Harstad Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Harstad
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Harstad Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Harstad
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Harstad "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Harstad
