Kajaani - General introduction to the city and its history.
Kajaanin Seurahuone - Hotel, restaurant, bar and night club. Includes room rates and location.
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Kajaani The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Kajaani
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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Kajaani You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Kajaani
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Kajaani Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Kajaani
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha What's new? Most of my wife. Kajaani The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Kajaani
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Kajaani Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Kajaani
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Kajaani The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan 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 Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Kajaani
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Kajaani "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Kajaani
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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Kajaani Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Kajaani
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Kajaani "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Kajaani
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Kajaani Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Kajaani
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Kajaani "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Kajaani
