Naaranlahti - Holiday accommodation in Hiukkajoki and Punkaharju, plus motor boat and snowmobile hire. Includes online booking.
"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Lodging The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lodging
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Lodging "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Lodging
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Lodging "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lodging
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Lodging To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Lodging
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lodging Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Lodging
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Lodging "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Lodging
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Lodging "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) 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 If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Lodging
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Lodging The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Lodging Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Lodging
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Lodging "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) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Lodging
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Lodging "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Lodging
