Kangasniemi - Basic facts, tourist information, services and events.
Lakeside Tours - Information about canoe trips and rental, as well as holiday cottages in the area.
The Old Parsonage of Kangasniemi - Preserved parsonage with vertical log structure, dating to the 1880s. Offers bed and breakfast accommodation, function facilities and handicrafts. Includes photos.
Tehomet Oy - Manufacturer of lighting poles and arms. Includes company information, product brochure, news and contacts.
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Kangasniemi A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Kangasniemi
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Kangasniemi This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Kangasniemi
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Kangasniemi I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Kangasniemi
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Kangasniemi I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Kangasniemi
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Kangasniemi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Kangasniemi
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Kangasniemi Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Kangasniemi
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kangasniemi "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Kangasniemi
A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kangasniemi We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kangasniemi
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Kangasniemi I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Kangasniemi
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Kangasniemi Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Kangasniemi
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Kangasniemi You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Kangasniemi
