The City of Pori - Basic city facts. Juselius Mausoleum, Reposaari and the City Hall are just some of the sights in or near the city. List of shops, restaurants and other tourist information.
Marina Merilokki Oy - Marina in Reposaari. Includes opening hours, equipment hire charges and information about boat charters and safaris.
Pori - Finland - A brief guide covering accommodation, eating out and attractions.
"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Pori At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Pori
Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "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) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Pori If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Pori
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Pori A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Pori
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Pori "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Pori
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Pori "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Pori
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Pori The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Pori
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Pori "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Pori
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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. We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pori Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Pori
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Pori As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Pori
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Pori Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Pori
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Pori "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Pori
