Island of Agathonisi - Includes history, current events, photos, maps, weather, and transportation advice.
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Agathonisi "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Agathonisi
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Agathonisi Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock 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 Agathonisi
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Agathonisi "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Agathonisi
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Agathonisi Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Agathonisi
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Agathonisi The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Agathonisi
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Agathonisi Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Agathonisi
"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Agathonisi I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Agathonisi
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Agathonisi Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 Agathonisi A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Agathonisi "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Agathonisi
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Agathonisi All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Agathonisi
