Paavo Haavikko Quotes

#1. Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.

Paavo Haavikko

#2. God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

Ogden Nash

#3. Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William Hung

#4. One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Robert Collier

#5. Writing is a crummy profession, but a good hobby.

Paavo Haavikko

#6. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Van Wyck Brooks

#7. Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers;
How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd,
Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell,
Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men
Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

Philip James Bailey

#8. The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

Cynthia Rylant

#9. There stirred behind her face a sense of life and purpose and mirth and caring that made her seem to be in motion even as she was still. There was a kind of rhythm to her, even in motionless repose. I said, "Energy contained by grace, maybe.

Robert B. Parker

#10. If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

William Pollard

#11. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

Dale Carnegie

#12. Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.

Henry Ward Beecher