Sibbo - Sipoo - Unofficial site with facts, figures, photos and paintings of local artists.
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "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) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Sipoo The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Sipoo
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "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) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Sipoo Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sipoo
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Sipoo I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Sipoo
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Sipoo "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 Sipoo
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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 Sipoo Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sipoo
"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) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Sipoo If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Sipoo
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Sipoo We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken 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 Sipoo
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sipoo You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Sipoo
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Sipoo What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Sipoo
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Sipoo "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sipoo
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Sipoo My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Sipoo
