Nafplion, an Aegean Magic - Information about this historical town, situated at the edge of the Gulf of Argolis. Travel and local historical details available.
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 All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Nafplion The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nafplion
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Nafplion "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nafplion
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Nafplion "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Nafplion
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Nafplion Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Nafplion
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Nafplion What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Nafplion
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Nafplion Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Nafplion
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Nafplion Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Nafplion
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Nafplion No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Nafplion
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Nafplion Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Nafplion
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Nafplion Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Nafplion
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Nafplion "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nafplion
