Silk Museum of Soufli - Housed in the Kourtidis Mansion (1883) in the town of Soufli. Shows the pre-industrial techniques by which silkworms were bred (sericulture) and silk was woven.
Culture.gr: Evros - An interactive map featuring museums, archaeological sites, ancient and Byzantine monuments.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Arts and Entertainment Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Arts and Entertainment
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "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) Arts and Entertainment
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Arts and Entertainment
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Arts and Entertainment
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Arts and Entertainment You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Arts and Entertainment
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Arts and Entertainment
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Arts and Entertainment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Arts and Entertainment
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Arts and Entertainment This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "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) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "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) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment
Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Arts and Entertainment If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Arts and Entertainment
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Arts and Entertainment
