Kalamia Music Cafe - Local bar/cafe. Personal descriptions of the island with a small photo gallery.
Koufonisi - Guide to the island including a list of hotels, beaches, history, nature weather and transport information.
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Ano Koufonisi It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Ano Koufonisi
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Ano Koufonisi "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "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) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Ano Koufonisi
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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 Ano Koufonisi Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Ano Koufonisi
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Ano Koufonisi "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Ano Koufonisi
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Ano Koufonisi I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Ano Koufonisi
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Ano Koufonisi Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Ano Koufonisi
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) 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 Ano Koufonisi The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Ano Koufonisi
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Ano Koufonisi Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Ano Koufonisi
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Ano Koufonisi Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Ano Koufonisi
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Ano Koufonisi "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Man and wife make one fool. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Ano Koufonisi
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY 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 Ano Koufonisi Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Ano Koufonisi
