Lappeenranta - The administrative and cultural center of South Karelia. Lappeenranta's history and also information to boaters and boating services.
Huhtiniemi Tourist Resort - Hotel, restaurant, holiday cottages and camp site. Includes prices and location information.
Janne's Homepage - Personal site featuring curriculum vitae and motorcycling information.
Saimaa Risteilyt - Information about cruises and private charters on Lake Saimaa.
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Lappeenranta Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Lappeenranta
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Lappeenranta What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Lappeenranta
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Lappeenranta I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Lappeenranta
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Lappeenranta Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Lappeenranta
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Lappeenranta Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Lappeenranta
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Lappeenranta Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Lappeenranta
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Lappeenranta Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Lappeenranta
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Lappeenranta It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Lappeenranta
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Lappeenranta All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Lappeenranta
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Lappeenranta Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Lappeenranta
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Lappeenranta "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Lappeenranta
