Industrial Systems Institute - Research institute located in Rio Patras aiming at promoting excellence in industry related research. The site provides information on the structure, staff, projects, and expertise of the institute.
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Science and Environment When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) "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) Science and Environment
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Science and Environment He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Science and Environment
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Science and Environment All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Science and Environment
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Science and Environment People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Science and Environment When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Science and Environment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Science and Environment I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Science and Environment
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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Science and Environment I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Science and Environment
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Science and Environment We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Science and Environment
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Science and Environment "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Science and Environment "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A 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 Science and Environment
