Halikko - Sights of the municipality, including three old manors.
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Halikko Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Halikko
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Halikko 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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Halikko
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Halikko An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Halikko
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Halikko blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Halikko
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Halikko "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." "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Halikko
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Halikko "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Halikko
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Halikko "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Halikko
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Halikko "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Halikko "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Halikko
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Halikko "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Halikko
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Halikko "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Halikko
