Pertunmaa - Municipality facts, leisure activities and handicraft traditions in a nutshell.
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Pertunmaa In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Pertunmaa
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "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 Pertunmaa "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Pertunmaa
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Pertunmaa "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Pertunmaa
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Pertunmaa You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Pertunmaa
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Pertunmaa Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Pertunmaa
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Pertunmaa "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Pertunmaa
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Pertunmaa MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Pertunmaa
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Pertunmaa Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Pertunmaa
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Pertunmaa Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Pertunmaa
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Pertunmaa I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Pertunmaa
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Pertunmaa Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Pertunmaa
