Hellenic Lines - The newspaper of the Hellenic Front, the main Greek nationalist party.
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 What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Newspapers He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Newspapers
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Newspapers Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Newspapers
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost 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 Newspapers "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) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Newspapers
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Newspapers Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford 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 Newspapers
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Man and wife make one fool. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Newspapers "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Newspapers
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Newspapers The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Newspapers
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Newspapers "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Newspapers
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "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 Newspapers "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Newspapers Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Newspapers
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Newspapers He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Newspapers
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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Newspapers There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Newspapers
