The Story of the Finnish Tango - This page written by Dr. Pekka Gronow tell the story of the Finnish tango. You can also listen to two famous tangoes in RealAudio.
Tangomarkkinat - Annual tango festival in Seinäjoki. Program, performers and accommodation, as well as a history of the festival and Finnish tango.
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Tango He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Tango
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Tango The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Tango
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Tango "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Tango
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Tango With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Tango
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Tango The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Tango
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Tango He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Tango
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Tango "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Tango
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents 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 "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 Tango "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Tango
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Tango Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Tango
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' In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Tango Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Tango
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Tango Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Tango
