Tervo - Location, history, sights, events and services of the municipality.
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Tervo 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tervo "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Tervo
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) 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 "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Tervo Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Tervo
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 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 Tervo A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Tervo
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Tervo Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Tervo
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Tervo 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 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 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Tervo
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Tervo Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Tervo
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Tervo "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Tervo
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Tervo "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Tervo
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Tervo I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Tervo
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Tervo Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 Tervo
