Helsinki in English from A to Z - Alphabetical guide to the city and its events. Includes many facts and historical anecdotes.
My Best Helsinki - Photographs of Helsinki and links to sites of interest to the traveller to Helsinki, Finland, including restaurant reviews, tourist information, hotels and site relating to the Finnish language.
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Travel and Tourism
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Travel and Tourism The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Travel and Tourism I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Travel and Tourism
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) 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 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Travel and Tourism "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Travel and Tourism
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Travel and Tourism "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Travel and Tourism
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Travel and Tourism Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Travel and Tourism
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Travel and Tourism There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Travel and Tourism
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Travel and Tourism I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Travel and Tourism
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Travel and Tourism Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Travel and Tourism
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Travel and Tourism Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Travel and Tourism
