British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce - Established in Athens for over 50 years and has a current membership of over 600 Greek and British companies. A liaison office is located in Thessaloniki.
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Organizations I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Organizations
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Organizations Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Organizations
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Organizations "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Organizations
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Organizations I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Organizations
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Organizations "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Organizations You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Organizations
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Organizations Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Organizations
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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' Organizations I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Organizations
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Organizations Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Organizations
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Organizations Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Organizations
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Organizations Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Organizations
