Pargas - Parainen - Brief presentation of the town in the archipelago.
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Pargas See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Pargas
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Pargas At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pargas
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Pargas Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Pargas
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Pargas A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pargas
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Pargas If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Pargas
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. 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 Pargas My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Pargas
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Pargas "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Pargas
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Pargas Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Pargas
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Pargas The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Pargas
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Pargas If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Pargas
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Pargas Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Pargas
