Servos with Christos Dimitropulos - General information, history, culture, pictures and slide Show for this traditional village also known as Servu.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "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) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Society and Culture A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Society and Culture
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
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" We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Society and Culture Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Society and Culture
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "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' For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Society and Culture A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Society and Culture
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Society and Culture "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "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) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Society and Culture
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "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) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Society and Culture
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Society and Culture NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Society and Culture
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. 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. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Society and Culture Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Society and Culture
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Society and Culture "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Society and Culture 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 And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Society and Culture
