Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Chania - Includes an interactive map to area museums and monuments with details on exhibits and hours of operation at each location.
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Museums "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) 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 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Museums
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Museums "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Museums
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Museums "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Museums
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Museums You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Museums
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Museums Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Museums
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster 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 The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Museums 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Museums
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Museums Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Museums
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Museums Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Museums
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Museums "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Museums
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Museums "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Museums
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Museums All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "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'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Museums
