Cretan Vista - Personal guide to living in North Western Crete, with essentials to survival, general and tourist information, transport, links and photos.
Still Life in Crete - Book about two British citizens building a house and moving to Afrata, Crete.
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Kissamos "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kissamos
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Kissamos Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Kissamos
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Kissamos "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) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Kissamos
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Kissamos Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Kissamos
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Kissamos Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Kissamos
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Kissamos Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Kissamos
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Kissamos The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Kissamos
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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 Kissamos I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Kissamos
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Kissamos I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Kissamos
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Kissamos blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kissamos
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Kissamos The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Kissamos
