Oravais - Situated very beautifully right by the sea on Finland's west coast. Cultural life is very rich in Oravais. Local associations offer a wide range of leisure-time activities both for children and adults.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Oravais If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "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 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Oravais
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Oravais Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Oravais
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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 However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Oravais "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "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 Oravais
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Oravais I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Oravais
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Oravais The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Oravais
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Oravais I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Oravais
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Oravais The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Oravais
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Oravais The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Oravais
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Oravais Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Oravais
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Oravais This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Oravais
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Oravais Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Oravais
