Muhos - A rural municipality in the Oulujoki valley. Places of interest, services and enterprises.
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Muhos "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Muhos
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Muhos Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Muhos
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Muhos Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 Muhos
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Muhos "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Muhos
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 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Muhos Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Muhos
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) 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 Muhos "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) 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 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Muhos
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Muhos "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) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Muhos
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Muhos Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Muhos
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Muhos "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Muhos
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Muhos 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 If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Muhos
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Muhos Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Muhos
