Voyage to Kythera - Features information on the history and culture of the island.
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Kithira "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kithira
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Kithira If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Kithira
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Kithira "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Kithira
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Kithira Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Kithira
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Kithira You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Kithira
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Kithira The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Kithira
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Kithira What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Kithira
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Kithira The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Kithira
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Kithira Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Kithira
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Kithira The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Kithira
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Kithira As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Kithira
