Pääskynpesä - Rehabilitation centre and hotel with brief information in English.
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ilomantsi If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama "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) Ilomantsi
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Ilomantsi She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Ilomantsi
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Ilomantsi Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Ilomantsi
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Ilomantsi A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Ilomantsi
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Ilomantsi We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ilomantsi
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Ilomantsi I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Ilomantsi
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Ilomantsi 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 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Ilomantsi
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ilomantsi Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Ilomantsi
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Ilomantsi Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Ilomantsi
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Ilomantsi 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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 Ilomantsi
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Ilomantsi The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Ilomantsi
