Lemi - A municipality known for its hymn-singing traditions and särä, a local pot roast of potatoes and mutton. Pictures of nature and recreational activities.
blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Lemi We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Lemi
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Lemi A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lemi
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Lemi Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Lemi
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Lemi "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Lemi
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Lemi Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lemi
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Lemi "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) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Lemi
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Lemi I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Lemi
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Lemi "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Lemi
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 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Lemi When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Lemi
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Lemi In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Lemi
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Lemi The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Lemi
