Vehmersalmi - Brief travel information, views and occupations. Construction land available for summer cottages.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Vehmersalmi My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Vehmersalmi
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "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) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Vehmersalmi Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Vehmersalmi
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Vehmersalmi "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Vehmersalmi
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Vehmersalmi Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Vehmersalmi
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vehmersalmi One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Vehmersalmi
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Vehmersalmi "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Vehmersalmi
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Vehmersalmi Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Vehmersalmi
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Vehmersalmi Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Vehmersalmi
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vehmersalmi 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Vehmersalmi
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Vehmersalmi Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Vehmersalmi
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Vehmersalmi The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Vehmersalmi
