Erätaika Lake Station - Holiday accommodation and activity centre. Includes contacts and location map.
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hirvensalmi Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Hirvensalmi
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Hirvensalmi blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Hirvensalmi
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Hirvensalmi The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hirvensalmi
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Hirvensalmi There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Hirvensalmi
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hirvensalmi "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Hirvensalmi
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Hirvensalmi Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Hirvensalmi
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "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 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Hirvensalmi "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) 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 Hirvensalmi
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Hirvensalmi It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Hirvensalmi
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Hirvensalmi Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Hirvensalmi
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hirvensalmi I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Hirvensalmi
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Hirvensalmi I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Hirvensalmi
