Ikaalinen Town - Brief information about the local spa, Seitseminen National Park, Sata-Häme Accordion Festival, churches and museums.
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 Ikaalinen Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ikaalinen
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Ikaalinen An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "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) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Ikaalinen
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "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 A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Ikaalinen If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Ikaalinen
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ikaalinen Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ikaalinen
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 Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Ikaalinen When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Ikaalinen
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Ikaalinen Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Ikaalinen
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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? Ikaalinen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Ikaalinen
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller 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 Ikaalinen Man and wife make one fool. Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Ikaalinen
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Ikaalinen "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Ikaalinen
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Ikaalinen "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Ikaalinen
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Ikaalinen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Ikaalinen
