Facts about Vammala - General information, sights, outdoor activities and events, including the annual Days of Old Literature.
The House of Mr Clutterbuck - Gallery, shop and tourist information center based on the stories of Mauri Kunnas. Opening hours, entrance fees and pictures.
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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) Vammala A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Vammala
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Vammala blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "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) Vammala
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Vammala I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Vammala
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Vammala Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Vammala
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Vammala I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Vammala
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Vammala "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Vammala
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Vammala What's new? Most of my wife. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vammala
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Vammala Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Vammala
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Vammala A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Vammala
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Vammala Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Vammala
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Vammala Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Vammala
