Tornio - Tourist information shared with the town of Haparanda on the Swedish side of the border.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Tornio We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Tornio
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Tornio If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Tornio
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Tornio If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Tornio
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Tornio Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Tornio
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Tornio Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Tornio
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Tornio "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) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Tornio
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Tornio There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Tornio
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Tornio Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tornio
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tornio Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "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 "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Tornio
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Tornio "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Tornio
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Tornio "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "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" Tornio
