Mitopoulos Building Work - Services of this building company specialised in working with materials such as schisto, marble, and tiles, located in Chania town.
Chemical Research Laboratory - Resume and publications of Georgios Menelaoy Fthenakis, the founder of this chemical research laboratory in Chania.
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Business and Economy A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Business and Economy Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Business and Economy Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Business and Economy
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Business and Economy
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Business and Economy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Business and Economy I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Business and Economy
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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 Business and Economy A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran 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 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Business and Economy Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Business and Economy "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
