Ruovesi - Nature attractions, recreation opportunities, accommodation and restaurants. Sights include Akseli Gallen-Kallela's wilderness studio Kalela and the Helvetinjärvi National Park.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Ruovesi "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Ruovesi
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Ruovesi Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Ruovesi
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Ruovesi I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Ruovesi
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Ruovesi If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ruovesi
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero 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 He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Ruovesi Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "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..." ( Ruovesi
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Ruovesi You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Ruovesi
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Ruovesi "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Ruovesi
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Ruovesi "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ruovesi
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Ruovesi "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Ruovesi
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Ruovesi This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Ruovesi
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Ruovesi If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Ruovesi
