Greek Folk Dance Festival - Annual dance competition; includes greek dancing, singing, and traditional costumes.
Dora Stratou - The official government sponsored organization for Greek folk dance, music and costumes.
Greek Folk Dances - Seminars for learning Greek folk dances and picture gallery of live events.
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Dance It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Dance
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-- Steven Wright "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Dance When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Dance
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Dance Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Dance
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Dance That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Dance
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Dance Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Dance
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Dance If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Dance
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Dance Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Dance
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Dance Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Dance
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Dance Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Dance
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Dance
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Dance Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
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