Institute of Subtropical Plants and Olive Tree of Chania - Design and execution of research, pilot programmes and demonstration projects on the problems and modernisation of the cultivation of olive and citrus tree and subtropical plants.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Science and Environment Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Science and Environment
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Science and Environment
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Science and Environment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Science and Environment
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Science and Environment Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Science and Environment
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science and Environment In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Science and Environment This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "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 Science and Environment
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Science and Environment "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous 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 We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Science and Environment "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Science and Environment There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright 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 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Science and Environment
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Science and Environment "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Marriage is a rest period between romances. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Science and Environment Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Science and Environment
