Sweden's 26 National Parks - The national parks presented by The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Parks The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Parks
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Parks Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Parks He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Parks
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks 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 I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Parks
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Parks I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Parks
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Parks "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Parks
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Parks Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Parks
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Parks For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Parks
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Parks Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Parks
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Parks Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Parks
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Parks Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James 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 A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Parks
