Olkkolan Hovi - Boutique hotel and restaurant, also offering conference facilities and art exhibitions. Includes history and photos.
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Savitaipale Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Savitaipale
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Savitaipale "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Savitaipale
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Savitaipale "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) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Savitaipale
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Savitaipale "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Savitaipale
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Savitaipale The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Savitaipale
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Savitaipale Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Savitaipale
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Savitaipale When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Savitaipale
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Savitaipale My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Savitaipale
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Savitaipale "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Savitaipale
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Savitaipale Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Savitaipale
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 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Savitaipale A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Savitaipale
