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Northern Periphery Programme - Interreg III B transnational programme, promoting cooperation between the northern most regions of Finland, Sweden, Norway, Scotland, Faroe Islands and all of Greenland. With strategic themes and priorities, area information and maps.
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. -- James Matthew Barrie Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Regions You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. -- Hermann Weyl War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel. -- Niccolo Machiavelli "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Regions The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III Regions Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. Regions Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. -- Yiddish Proverb I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Regions I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. -- Woody Allen Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. -- Shane Leslie Regions A man in the house is worth two in the street. -- Mae West The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong. -- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel Regions His ignorance is encyclopedic - Abba Eban Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good taste in men! -- Wedding Toast Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Regions Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea. -- Tom K. Ryan Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Regions You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart. -- Fred Allen The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- Regions Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead. -- Saint John Chrysostom To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me de UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Regions Golf is a good walk spoiled. -- Mark Twain Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Regions I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. -- William Yeats Regions The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. -- Epicurus Regions "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. -- P. J Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Regions The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Regions All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Regions Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. -- Mae West When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. -- William Penn Regions "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -- John Ciardi Regions Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you. -- Satchel Paige Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs 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 Regions Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Regions The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. -- Thornton Wilder In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Regions
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