Chania Net - Travel and business index for the Prefecture of Chania, West Crete, with links in various categories.
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When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Guides and Directories In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Guides and Directories
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Guides and Directories "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Guides and Directories The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Guides and Directories "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Guides and Directories
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Guides and Directories
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Guides and Directories The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Guides and Directories "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories
"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) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Guides and Directories Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Guides and Directories
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Guides and Directories It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Guides and Directories
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Guides and Directories "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Guides and Directories
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Guides and Directories
