Traveling Classroom - Syros - Review of the island in journal form with information of particular interest to anyone touring the Cyclades by sailboat.
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Syros If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Syros Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Syros
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Syros A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Syros
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Syros "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Syros
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Syros Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Syros
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Syros Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Syros
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Syros Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Syros
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Syros I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Syros
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Syros You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Syros
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Syros All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Syros
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Syros "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Syros
