Karpathos in Pictures - Ian Swindale's photo guide and information page for the island.
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Maps and Views Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Maps and Views
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Maps and Views Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Maps and Views
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Maps and Views "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maps and Views
I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Maps and Views A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Maps and Views
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Maps and Views
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Maps and Views
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- 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 Maps and Views Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Maps and Views
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Maps and Views
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Maps and Views Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Maps and Views
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Maps and Views 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 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Maps and Views
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Maps and Views The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Maps and Views
