Cultural Map of Hellas - The Ministry of Culture provides interactive maps, index and search engine to information on 1000 archaeological sites, buildings and museums spanning ancient, Byzantine and modern.
Kol Hakehila - The newsletter of the Jewish monuments of Greece, for the study and preservation of the Jewish sites of Greece. Includes a gazetteer of sites.
Preserving Jewish Heritage in Greece - An illustrated article by Elias V. Messinas in Archaeology on the history of Greek synagogues and the need to preserve these remnants of an ancient tradition.
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Architecture Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Architecture
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 Architecture If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Architecture
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Architecture In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Architecture
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Architecture "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Architecture
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Architecture When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Architecture
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Architecture I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Architecture
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Architecture Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Architecture
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Architecture "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Architecture
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Architecture All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Architecture
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Architecture I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Architecture
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Architecture Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Architecture
