Dennis Paroutsas' Evritania - Includes historical facts, as well as trip examples in the region, and photos.
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Guides and Directories The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Guides and Directories
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig 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 Guides and Directories All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Guides and Directories
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Guides and Directories
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Guides and Directories
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Guides and Directories "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Guides and Directories Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Guides and Directories Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Guides and Directories
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Guides and Directories "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Guides and Directories "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Guides and Directories
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 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
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Guides and Directories "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
