Nisyros - Photographs, news, information, history and culture pages for this island situated between Kos and Rhodes.
Nisyros Volcano - Island facts from the main site. Not much information here, but the parent site is of interest to those looking for information about volcanoes.
Tilos Sea Star - Contact information for a boat running between Tilos and Rhodes.
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Nisyros and Tilos Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Nisyros and Tilos
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nisyros and Tilos Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Nisyros and Tilos
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Nisyros and Tilos A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 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 only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nisyros and Tilos
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Nisyros and Tilos LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Nisyros and Tilos
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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" "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Nisyros and Tilos Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Nisyros and Tilos
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Nisyros and Tilos I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Nisyros and Tilos
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "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 "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Nisyros and Tilos At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Nisyros and Tilos
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Nisyros and Tilos When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Nisyros and Tilos
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Nisyros and Tilos "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "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) Nisyros and Tilos
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Nisyros and Tilos "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) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Nisyros and Tilos
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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "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) 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. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Nisyros and Tilos "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nisyros and Tilos
