Turku Chamber of Commerce - Promoting the interests of commercial companies in the Turku region. Activities, services and an economic review.
The River Aurajoki - A muddy river flowing from the ridges of Oripää to the city of Turku. Information center, fishing and canoeing.
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Varsinais-Suomi "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Varsinais-Suomi
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 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Varsinais-Suomi "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Varsinais-Suomi
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Varsinais-Suomi During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Varsinais-Suomi
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Varsinais-Suomi "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "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) Varsinais-Suomi
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) My other wife is beautiful. Varsinais-Suomi "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Varsinais-Suomi
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Varsinais-Suomi At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Varsinais-Suomi
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Varsinais-Suomi Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Varsinais-Suomi
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Varsinais-Suomi "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Varsinais-Suomi
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Varsinais-Suomi "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Varsinais-Suomi
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Varsinais-Suomi Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Varsinais-Suomi
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone 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 Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Varsinais-Suomi "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Varsinais-Suomi
