Finnish Alliance - Cultural organization with a goal to strengthen the Finnish identity. Information about famous Finns and early explorers.
The Swedish Assembly of Finland - A semi-official body representing the Swedish-speaking population. Information about the status of the Swedish language.
National Minorities of Finland - Essay on the Swedish speakers, the Saami, the Rom, the Jews, the Old Russians and the Tatars.
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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 Ethnicity A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Ethnicity
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Ethnicity Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ethnicity
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Ethnicity Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Ethnicity
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "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) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Ethnicity Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Ethnicity
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Ethnicity We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Ethnicity
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Ethnicity Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Ethnicity
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ethnicity "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Ethnicity
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Ethnicity Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Ethnicity
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Ethnicity "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ethnicity
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Ethnicity Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Ethnicity
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Ethnicity It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Ethnicity
