Map of Santorini - Interactive map of the island in Greek, English and German.
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Maps and Views
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Maps and Views Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Maps and Views
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Maps and Views "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Maps and Views
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Maps and Views
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Maps and Views
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Maps and Views When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Maps and Views
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Maps and Views 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 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Maps and Views
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Maps and Views
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Maps and Views "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Maps and Views
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Maps and Views
