Tikkakoski Finnish Air Force Museum - Features photos and descriptions of the collections, as well as all aircraft flown by the Finnish Air Force. Located near Tikkakoski.
The Lenin Museum - Information about the museum in Tampere, including history and publications. Also features a biography of Lenin.
Golden World - Museum in Tankavaara that aims to present the circumstances and events which have led to the historical importance of gold. Includes museum description, contact information, and hours.
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Museums "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Museums
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Museums Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Museums
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Museums "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Museums
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Museums Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Museums
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Museums And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Museums
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Museums "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Museums
Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Museums "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Museums
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Museums 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 Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Museums
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Museums The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Museums
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Museums One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Museums
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Museums The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Museums
