Finnish 49er Association - Sailing club. Latest events and results along with the 49er class interpretations and rules.
Pleasure Boating Links to Finland - Links to weather information, Archipelago Sea and Ã…land Islands, guest harbours, Finnish yacht clubs, and maritime administration. In English, Swedish and Finnish.
Teekkaripurjehtijat - Sailing club associated with the Student Union of the Helsinki University of Technology. Provides a brief introduction and relevant links.
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Boating "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Boating
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Boating "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Boating
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) 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 Boating Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Boating
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Boating Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Boating
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Boating People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Boating
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Boating The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Boating
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Boating The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Boating
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Boating "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Boating
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Boating "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Boating
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Boating All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Boating
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Boating "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Boating
