The Swedish Asatru Society - Information about the Society and its activities, as well as ancient norse myths, legends and cultural history.
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Religion When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Religion
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Religion "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Religion
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Religion
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Religion Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Religion
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Religion Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Religion
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Religion What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Religion
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Religion "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Religion
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Religion "'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) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Religion
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Religion I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Religion
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Religion "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Religion
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Religion All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Religion
