Savukoski - General municipality information, its history, events, travel and recreation possibilities.
Kairiver Wilderness Centre - Provides information about the holiday cottages, as well as local fishing, canoeing and hunting.
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay 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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Savukoski "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Savukoski
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Savukoski In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Savukoski
Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Savukoski To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Savukoski
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Savukoski At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Savukoski
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Savukoski Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Savukoski
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Savukoski Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Savukoski
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Savukoski "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Savukoski
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Savukoski The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Savukoski
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Savukoski "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Savukoski
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Savukoski And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Savukoski
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Savukoski Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Savukoski
