Aristidis Kontogeorgis Photography - Find a slide show and galleries of photographs in infrared, color, and black and white. Subjects include the monastery, landscapes from the 60's, and people.
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "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) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Maps and Views There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Maps and Views An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Maps and Views
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Maps and Views Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Maps and Views
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Maps and Views
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Maps and Views Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Maps and Views
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Maps and Views Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Maps and Views
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Maps and Views Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Maps and Views
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Maps and Views Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Maps and Views
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Maps and Views
What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Maps and Views Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
