The Kantele - Finland's National Instrument - Article on the Kantele written by Anneli Asplund, senior researcher, Finnish Literature Society. You can also listen to three Kantele pieces performed by Timo Väänänen.
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 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' "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Folk In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Folk
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Folk "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Folk
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Folk "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Folk
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Folk "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Folk
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Folk Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Folk
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Folk I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Folk
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Folk blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Folk
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Folk "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Folk
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Folk Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Folk
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Folk "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Folk
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Folk If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Folk
