Methana.com - Tourist information, photos of villages, and technical information about the processes that formed the landscape. Links to geological information in English and German.
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Guides and Directories Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Guides and Directories
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Guides and Directories "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) 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, "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Guides and Directories The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Guides and Directories
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Guides and Directories
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Guides and Directories Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Guides and Directories
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Guides and Directories Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Guides and Directories
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Guides and Directories "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Guides and Directories Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Guides and Directories A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
