Punkalaidun - History of the municipality and a short description of the Yli-Kirra farmhouse museum.
"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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Punkalaidun "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Punkalaidun
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Punkalaidun Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Punkalaidun
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Punkalaidun "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Punkalaidun
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Punkalaidun All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Punkalaidun
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Punkalaidun We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Punkalaidun
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Punkalaidun The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') 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 Punkalaidun
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "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) Punkalaidun "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Punkalaidun
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Punkalaidun Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Punkalaidun
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Punkalaidun Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Punkalaidun
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Punkalaidun The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Punkalaidun
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Punkalaidun A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Punkalaidun
