City of Rauma - A town known for its distinctive dialect, lacemaking and wooden old town. General and tourist information.
Old Rauma - A virtual tour of the largest historical wooden town in the Nordic countries.
Rauma's English Kindergarten - Teaching English as a second language to children aged 3-6. Includes photos and examples of the pupils' work.
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Rauma Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Rauma
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Rauma Marriage is a rest period between romances. Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Rauma
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Rauma "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Rauma
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Rauma A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Rauma
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Rauma Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Rauma
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Rauma It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Rauma
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Rauma Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Rauma
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "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 Rauma Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Rauma
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "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) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Rauma A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Rauma
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Rauma Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Rauma
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Rauma Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Rauma
