Hotel Petäys - Holiday and course centre in Tyrväntö. Includes an overview of the accommodation, restaurant and conference facilities.
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Hattula "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Hattula
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Hattula "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hattula
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Hattula I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Hattula
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Hattula Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Hattula
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Hattula "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hattula
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Hattula When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Hattula
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Hattula "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Hattula
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 The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Hattula The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Hattula
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Man and wife make one fool. Hattula Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Hattula
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Hattula No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Hattula
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Hattula "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) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Hattula
