Music in Finland - Article on classical music written by Mr Pekka Hako, Director of the Finnish Music Information Centre.
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Classical "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Classical
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Classical The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! 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 Classical
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Classical Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Classical
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Classical If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Classical
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Classical "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Classical
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Classical "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Classical
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Classical This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Classical
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Classical Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Classical
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Classical The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Classical
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Classical The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Classical
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Classical If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Classical
