Pictures of Folegandros - Pictures of Folegandros along with some information on this island.
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Folegandros The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "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) Folegandros
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Folegandros "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Folegandros
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 Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Folegandros As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Folegandros
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Folegandros The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Folegandros
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Folegandros How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "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) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Folegandros
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Folegandros Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Folegandros
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Folegandros Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Folegandros
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Folegandros Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Folegandros
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Folegandros "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Folegandros
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Folegandros "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Folegandros
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Folegandros Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Folegandros
