Athens Out - Cultural guide for the Athens area, covering daily life, music, accommodation, and cuisine.
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Travel Guides I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Travel Guides
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Travel Guides There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Travel Guides
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi 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 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel Guides May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Travel Guides
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 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 A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Travel Guides Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Travel Guides
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Travel Guides Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "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) Travel Guides
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel Guides If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Travel Guides
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Travel Guides Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Travel Guides
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Travel Guides Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Travel Guides
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died 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.
Travel Guides Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel Guides
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Travel Guides Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Travel Guides
