Karkkila - Town history, environment and population statistics. Brief information about the Foundry Museum and Karkkila Högfors Worker's Museum.
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Karkkila The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Karkkila
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Karkkila "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Karkkila Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Karkkila
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Karkkila For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Karkkila
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Karkkila It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Karkkila
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Karkkila "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Karkkila
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Karkkila There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Karkkila
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Karkkila "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Karkkila
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Karkkila Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Karkkila
None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Karkkila What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Karkkila
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Karkkila The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Karkkila
