Association for the Protection of Kifissia - Non-profit organization seeking to protect the natural and built environment and to safeguard the cultural identity of the region. Includes goals, activities, events, and publications.
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Ecology "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Ecology
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Ecology "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Ecology
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Ecology Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Ecology
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Ecology Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 Ecology
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Ecology "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Ecology
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Ecology "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Ecology
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Ecology 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 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 I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Ecology
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Ecology .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Ecology
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Ecology He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Ecology
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Ecology Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Ecology
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Ecology Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Ecology
