Korsholm - History, society and sights. Pictures of the Replot Bridge, the longest bridge in the country.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Korsholm It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Korsholm
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Korsholm To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Korsholm
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Korsholm Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- 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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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Korsholm My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Korsholm
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Korsholm "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Korsholm
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Korsholm Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Korsholm
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Korsholm "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Korsholm
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Korsholm Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 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 Korsholm
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Korsholm It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Korsholm
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Korsholm The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Korsholm
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Korsholm "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Korsholm
