Toijala - Provides a brief introduction to the town.
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Toijala "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Toijala
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Toijala You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Toijala
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Toijala Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Toijala
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Toijala Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Toijala
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Toijala We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Toijala
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Toijala The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Toijala
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Toijala My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Toijala
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Toijala Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Toijala
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Toijala "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Toijala
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Toijala "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Toijala
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Toijala If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Toijala
