Antiparos Island - A touristic and commercial guide of the beautiful island of Antiparos, a small paradise located southwest from Paros Island in the Cyclades Islands of Greece.
Taverna Damis - Information on the island and this family run restaurant serving local food and wine.
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Antiparos Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Antiparos
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Antiparos As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Antiparos
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Antiparos Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Antiparos
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Antiparos 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Antiparos
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Antiparos The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Antiparos
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Antiparos I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Antiparos
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Antiparos Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Antiparos
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Antiparos Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Antiparos
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Antiparos The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "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) Antiparos
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "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) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Antiparos Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Antiparos
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Antiparos Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Antiparos
