Rion-Antirion Bridge - Information on the building of the bridge which will cross the Corinth Gulf Strait near Patras.
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Transportation The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Transportation
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Transportation Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Transportation
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transportation Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Transportation
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Transportation The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Transportation
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Transportation
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Transportation "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "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' Transportation
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Transportation The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Transportation
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Transportation Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Transportation
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Transportation "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Transportation A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Transportation
