Alpine Center - Swiss-managed institute offering hotel and tourism management studies in Greece. Located in Glyfada.
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Vocational and Technical "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great What's new? Most of my wife. Vocational and Technical
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Vocational and Technical The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Vocational and Technical
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vocational and Technical "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Vocational and Technical
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Vocational and Technical It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Vocational and Technical
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Vocational and Technical And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Vocational and Technical
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Vocational and Technical Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Vocational and Technical
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Vocational and Technical When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake 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. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Vocational and Technical
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Vocational and Technical Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Vocational and Technical
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 I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Vocational and Technical In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vocational and Technical
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Vocational and Technical Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Vocational and Technical
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Vocational and Technical If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Vocational and Technical
