Mora - Official web site of the municipality. Provides information for visitors and inhabitants.
Santaworld - Theme park with Santa's workshop, fairies and trolls. Information about the park and about the Swedish Santa Claus and Christmas traditions.
The Anders Zorn Collections - About the painter and folklorist Anders Zorn and the several museums in and around Mora dedicated to his life and work.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Mora Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Mora
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Mora There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Mora
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Mora Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Mora
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Man and wife make one fool. The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Mora If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Mora
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Mora Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "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 Mora
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Mora It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Mora
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 Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Mora We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Mora
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "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) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Mora Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Mora
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Mora Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Mora
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) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Mora "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Mora
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Mora Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Mora
