Tinella - Official site of the Greek folk music group. Includes a biography, photos and gig dates.
Belavilas, G - Greek singer and instrumentalist. Information on recordings and brief biographical details.
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Folk "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Folk
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Folk 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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Folk
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Folk Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Folk
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Folk When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Folk
Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Folk Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Folk
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Folk The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Folk
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Folk Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Folk
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Folk I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Folk
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Folk Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Folk
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Folk Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Folk
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Folk If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Folk
