International Lawyers' Association of Finland (ILAF) - Networking and support for the expatriate legal community (including practicing attorneys, in-house lawyers, academics, and international law students). Includes news and events.
American Women's Club of Finland - Social and support group of American and international women in the Helsinki area. Details about events and upcoming meetings.
Taylors in Finland - Mary Ann Taylor describes her Fulbright Teacher Exchange to Oulu.
Connected to Finland - Website for foreigners living in Finland with articles on Finnish culture and ettiquette, entertainment and language.
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Expatriate Life Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Expatriate Life
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Expatriate Life This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Expatriate Life
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Expatriate Life "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Expatriate Life
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Expatriate Life 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 Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Expatriate Life
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Expatriate Life This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Expatriate Life
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Expatriate Life Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Expatriate Life
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Expatriate Life Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Expatriate Life
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Expatriate Life "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Expatriate Life
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Expatriate Life Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Expatriate Life
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Expatriate Life Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Expatriate Life
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Expatriate Life By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Expatriate Life
