Greek Island Hopping - Companion to the printed book; includes timetables, island guides, and local links.
Kyklades.com.gr - Portal to the islands with a directory of hotels, travel agents, restaurants, businesses, and photos.
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Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Travel Guides "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Travel Guides
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Travel Guides "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Travel Guides
When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel Guides A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Travel Guides
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Travel Guides Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Travel Guides
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Travel Guides 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap 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 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel Guides
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Travel Guides "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Travel Guides
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Travel Guides When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Travel Guides
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel Guides It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Travel Guides
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Travel Guides 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 There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Travel Guides
I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Travel Guides Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel Guides
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Travel Guides "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "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 Travel Guides
