City of Kauniainen - Brief facts and history of the town. Webcam view from the City Hall.
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Kauniainen Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Kauniainen
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Kauniainen No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Kauniainen
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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
th Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Kauniainen 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Kauniainen
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Kauniainen "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Kauniainen
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kauniainen "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Kauniainen
In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Kauniainen Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Kauniainen
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone 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. Kauniainen "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Kauniainen
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Kauniainen Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Kauniainen
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville 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 Kauniainen The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Kauniainen
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Kauniainen If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Kauniainen
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Kauniainen To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Kauniainen
