Nine Muses - Accredited school of Greek language also offering au pair placements in Europe and USA. Located in Nea Smyrni.
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Languages "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Languages
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Languages Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Languages
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Languages May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Languages
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Languages The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Languages
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Languages Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Languages
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki 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 Languages If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Languages
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Languages "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Languages
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Languages I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Languages
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Languages The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Languages
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Languages Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Languages
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Languages We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Languages
