Nykarleby - General information about the city and its sights.
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Nykarleby The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Nykarleby
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Nykarleby I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Nykarleby
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "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) Nykarleby "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Nykarleby
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Nykarleby If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Nykarleby "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Nykarleby
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Nykarleby The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Nykarleby
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko 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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Nykarleby "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Nykarleby
May you never leave your marriage alive. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Nykarleby Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Nykarleby
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nykarleby "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Nykarleby
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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 Nykarleby 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
ha Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Nykarleby
"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 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone 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 Nykarleby His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Nykarleby
