Rajamaa - Activity holidays in Lapland with trekking, skiing and fishing.
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Lapland Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Lapland
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt What's new? Most of my wife. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Lapland "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Lapland
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lapland Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Lapland
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Lapland More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Lapland
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) 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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lapland "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Lapland
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Lapland "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 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 Lapland
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Lapland "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Lapland
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Lapland If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Lapland
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Lapland In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Lapland
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Lapland "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Lapland
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lapland I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Lapland
