Virolahti Municipality - Brief general presentation of the municipality. Further information about the Vaalimaa frontier crossing and the local upper secondary school.
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Virolahti 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Virolahti
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Virolahti "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Virolahti
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Virolahti The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Virolahti
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Virolahti It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "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 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Virolahti
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "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) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Virolahti If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Virolahti
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Virolahti The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "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..." ( Virolahti
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Virolahti "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Virolahti
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virolahti Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Virolahti
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Virolahti "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Virolahti
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Virolahti "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Virolahti
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "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) Virolahti You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Virolahti
