Rodavgi - General information about this village located on the mountain terrain of Arta, in the state of Epirus.
Archaeological Collection of Arta - Description, opening hours and examples of this collection, housed in the dining room of the Paregoretissa Monastery, a building of the 13th century.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arta Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Arta
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Arta "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Arta
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Arta Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arta
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Arta "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Arta
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Arta "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Arta
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arta It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Arta
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Arta If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Arta
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Arta Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Arta
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Arta Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Arta
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Arta I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Arta
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Arta We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Arta
