Finnish Quotes: top 27 famous quotes about Finnish

Finnish Quotes & Sayings

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The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is. — Sauli Niinisto

If you can't do it, just laugh about it instead of blushing or being embarrassed. — Auliq Ice

The third aspect of change is a systematic development of respectful and inspiring working conditions for teachers and principals in Finnish schools. — Pasi Sahlberg

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical. — Thomas Jefferson

For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude. — Salla Simukka

Lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas (technical warrant officer trainee specialised in aircraft jet engines) — Tarja Moles

You have to remember that Finnish people hate art. — Kati Outinen

And a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation. — Michael J. Fox

If you say that you're a cheap designer, you're a cheap designer. It's really hard to recover from that. — Jessica Hische

A friend comes over with a Ouija board.
It spells out: Bourbon. Where's the band?
Just because you're dead doesn't mean you can't
have fun. — Kelli Russell Agodon

You know, since the 6th century, Sunni and Shia have been fighting. — John Kasich

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. — Mira Nair

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time. — Gertrude Stein

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. — Linus Torvalds

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. — Homer

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women. — Toni Jerrman

Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish? — Jostein Gaarder

Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside. — Hans Vestberg

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee. — Nicholas Sparks

(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) — Susan Cain

I'm writing to hold on to you. — Henriikka Tavi

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it. — David Plotz

Swedes, we are not - Russians, we do not want to become ... so let us be Finnish. — Adolf Ivar Arwidsson

Poor is a state of mind you never grow out of, but being broke is just a temporary condition. — Dick Gregory

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army — Joseph Stalin