Suomenniemi - Brief information about the municipality and the residential areas of Väliaho and Kauriansalmi.
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Suomenniemi Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Suomenniemi
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Suomenniemi Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Suomenniemi
This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "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) Suomenniemi Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Suomenniemi
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Suomenniemi The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 Suomenniemi
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Suomenniemi Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Suomenniemi
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Suomenniemi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Suomenniemi
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Suomenniemi It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Suomenniemi
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Suomenniemi "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Suomenniemi
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) 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 Suomenniemi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Suomenniemi
"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) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) 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 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Suomenniemi Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Suomenniemi
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Suomenniemi "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Suomenniemi
