Art Gallery Pyli - Gallery of handmade jewelry and paintings from a Dutch artist couple living in Pyli village.
HyBrid13 - Chatroom and music downloads from this Kos-based, unsigned rock/metal band.
The Busstop Gallery - Shop in Pyli featuring handmade jewelry and ceramics, paintings and workshops from the artist Sol; tour the virtual gallery, find out about the artist, or learn about classes available.
Diogenes 2004 - Arts festival in honor of Diogenes the Cynic; includes dates, registration, and events.
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "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) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Arts and Entertainment
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Arts and Entertainment "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Arts and Entertainment
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Arts and Entertainment If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Arts and Entertainment
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Arts and Entertainment All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Arts and Entertainment Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Arts and Entertainment
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Arts and Entertainment "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Arts and Entertainment
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Arts and Entertainment blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Arts and Entertainment
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Arts and Entertainment Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Arts and Entertainment "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "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) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Arts and Entertainment A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Arts and Entertainment
