Vourgareli Artas - A guide for this area which contains information and historical facts. Links to hotels and other towns.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Travel and Tourism Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Travel and Tourism "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "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' Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Travel and Tourism
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Travel and Tourism The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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 Travel and Tourism
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Travel and Tourism The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Travel and Tourism
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford 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 like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Travel and Tourism
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Travel and Tourism
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Travel and Tourism Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Travel and Tourism
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Travel and Tourism He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Travel and Tourism Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Travel and Tourism
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Travel and Tourism "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism
