City of Megara - Historical, demographic, and cultural information on this village near Athens.
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Megara "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Megara
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Megara "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Megara
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Megara Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Megara
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Megara "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) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Megara
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Megara A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Megara
Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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, "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Megara "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Megara
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Megara "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Megara
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Megara If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Megara
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen 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 Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Megara Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Megara
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Megara It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Megara
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Megara When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Megara
