Salamina - Includes information on the island plus history and photographs.
Salamis The Island - The oficial site of the municipality of Salamina and information and history of Salamis Island.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Salamina Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Salamina
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Salamina The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Salamina
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Salamina You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Salamina
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Salamina The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Salamina
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Salamina The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Salamina
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Salamina 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 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Salamina
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 Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Salamina The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Salamina
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Salamina "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Salamina
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Salamina Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Salamina
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 You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Salamina Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Salamina
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"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) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Salamina The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Salamina
