Helsinki Lifeboat Association - Includes photos, statistics and information about how to contact them in an emergency.
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Helsinki Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Helsinki
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Helsinki "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Helsinki
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little 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 Helsinki The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Helsinki
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Helsinki "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Helsinki
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Helsinki Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Helsinki
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Helsinki Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Helsinki
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Helsinki The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Helsinki
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Helsinki Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Helsinki
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Helsinki "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Helsinki
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Helsinki I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict 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 Helsinki
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Helsinki If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Helsinki
