Platanias Village - Includes a history of the community, maps, pictures, stories, and travel information.
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
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-- Anatole France "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Guides and Directories You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Guides and Directories
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) 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 Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Guides and Directories "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Guides and Directories
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "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) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Guides and Directories "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying 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) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Guides and Directories Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Guides and Directories Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Guides and Directories
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Guides and Directories
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Guides and Directories "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Guides and Directories
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Guides and Directories Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Guides and Directories
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous 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 Guides and Directories Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Guides and Directories
