Swedish Adventure - A tourist and adventure catalogue which presents Swedish adventures, along with commercial companies. Includes rafting, whitewater paddling, fishing, hunting, adventure trips and equipment.
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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 Attractions "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Attractions
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 May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Attractions Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Attractions
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Attractions I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Attractions
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Attractions "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Attractions
"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Attractions I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Attractions
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Attractions We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Attractions
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Attractions Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Attractions
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Attractions Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Attractions "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Attractions
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Attractions Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Attractions
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Attractions 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Attractions
