From Mythe to History - Learn about this history and culture of this Aegean island; includes an overview of the arts, Akrotiri, and the Minoans.
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Society and Culture If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Society and Culture
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Society and Culture Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Society and Culture
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) 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 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Society and Culture
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Society and Culture Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Society and Culture The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "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) Society and Culture "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Society and Culture Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Society and Culture
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 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Society and Culture For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Society and Culture CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Society and Culture
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
