Raahe - About the city and its services. List of schools and educational establishments.
The Raahe Museum - Photographs of the museum containing the oldest diving suit in the world, textiles and ships.
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Raahe There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Raahe
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Raahe 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 have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Raahe
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Raahe "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews 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 Raahe
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Raahe "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Raahe
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Raahe Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Raahe
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Raahe When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Raahe
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 Raahe blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Raahe
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Raahe If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Raahe
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Raahe "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Raahe
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Raahe Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Raahe
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Raahe Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Raahe
