Vaikouzis' Page - Personal site with information about Samothraki, this island in Northeast Greece, diving in the area, Big Blue cafe, chat room and links.
Alexandroupolis Linux User Group - A group of Linux friends that help the developing and the promotion of the Linux Operating System.
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Society and Culture
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Society and Culture "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Society and Culture
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Society and Culture "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) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Society and Culture
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "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 Society and Culture "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Society and Culture Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Society and Culture
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Society and Culture
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Society and Culture "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Society and Culture
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Society and Culture What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Society and Culture
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Society and Culture "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Society and Culture
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Society and Culture
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "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 If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Society and Culture
