Kerava - General town information, events, sights and businesses in the town of Kerava.
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Kerava "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) 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 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Kerava
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Kerava Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 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, "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Kerava
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Kerava Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Kerava
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Kerava To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Kerava
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Kerava "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Kerava
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Kerava "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Kerava
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 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 Kerava Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Kerava
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kerava "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kerava
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Kerava Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Kerava
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Kerava Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kerava
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Kerava "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) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Kerava
