Taverna Emborios - Traditional Greek seafood restaurant; includes a history of the island, details of local festivals, menu, and a photo gallery.
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Kassos When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Kassos
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Kassos If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Kassos
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Kassos A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Kassos
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Kassos If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kassos
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Kassos "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Kassos
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Kassos A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Kassos
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Kassos "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Kassos
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Kassos You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Kassos
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Kassos Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Kassos
Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Kassos Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Kassos
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous 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 Kassos Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Kassos
