Kuhmo: Where Everything Is Different - Lodging, restaurants, outdoor activities, sights and events, including the Kalevala Village and the annual Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival.
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Kuhmo The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Kuhmo
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Kuhmo I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Kuhmo
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kuhmo Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Kuhmo
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 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Kuhmo The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Kuhmo
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "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) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Kuhmo Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kuhmo
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kuhmo A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Kuhmo
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Kuhmo "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Kuhmo
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Kuhmo "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" An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Kuhmo
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Kuhmo blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Kuhmo
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Kuhmo "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Kuhmo
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Kuhmo "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 "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Kuhmo
