Eva's Hikes in Greece: Naxos - Descriptions of several walks with a report about the newly walking department of the local Panaxiakos Sports Club.
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "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) Recreation and Sports You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Recreation and Sports We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Recreation and Sports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Recreation and Sports I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Recreation and Sports
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Recreation and Sports Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Recreation and Sports
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Recreation and Sports Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Recreation and Sports
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Recreation and Sports "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Recreation and Sports
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Recreation and Sports He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Recreation and Sports
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "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) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Recreation and Sports
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Recreation and Sports Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports
