Turun Keskiaikaseura Unikankare - SCA branch in Turku. Includes activity schedule, events, combat roster, newsletter archives (PDF) and newcomer information (PDF).
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "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) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Living History The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Living History
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Living History ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Living History
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Living History "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Living History
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Living History The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Living History
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Living History "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Living History
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Living History The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Living History
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Living History Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Living History
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 A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Living History Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Living History
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Living History The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Living History
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Living History "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Living History
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 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 The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 Living History Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Living History
