Map-Point Ltd - Maps of the city with information on services such as restaurants, accommodations, shops, and museums.
Stadi - Photos of Helsinki, the author's long-time hometown.
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Maps and Views Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Maps and Views
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Maps and Views "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Maps and Views
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Maps and Views Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Maps and Views "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Maps and Views
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) 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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Maps and Views "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Maps and Views
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Maps and Views I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Maps and Views
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Maps and Views Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Maps and Views
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt 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 "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps and Views
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Maps and Views We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Maps and Views
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Maps and Views Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Maps and Views
