A Ticket to Gavdos - The islet of Gavdos is Europe's southern most point. It lies in the Lybian Sea, just 50 km outside of Chora Sfakion in Crete, Greece. This site contains the most comprehensive information about this islet.
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Selinon And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Selinon
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Selinon If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Selinon
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn >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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Selinon Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Selinon
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Selinon Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Selinon
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Selinon What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Selinon
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf What's new? Most of my wife. I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Selinon To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Selinon
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Selinon "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Selinon
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Selinon blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Selinon
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Selinon "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 Selinon
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Selinon "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Selinon
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Selinon "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Selinon
