Traditional Skiing in Finland - An overview of cross country skiing in Finland including historical background and pictures.
Snow Finland - Features information about slopes, tracks, accommodation, local services, web cams, and travel details.
Erja Jokinen - Personal webpage of ski-orienteerer. Past and future competitions, links and personal information.
Matti Hautamäki - Home page of the ski jumper with biographical information and event schedule.
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Skiing "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Skiing
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) 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 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 "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Skiing I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Skiing
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Skiing Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Skiing
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Skiing "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Skiing
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Skiing Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Skiing
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Skiing Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Skiing
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Skiing You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Skiing
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Skiing "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Skiing "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) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Skiing
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Skiing Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Skiing
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Skiing Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Skiing
