Fthiotida - Historical, geographical and tourist information for this prefecture.
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) 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 In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Travel and Tourism Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Travel and Tourism
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Travel and Tourism A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Travel and Tourism
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Travel and Tourism "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Travel and Tourism
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Travel and Tourism blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Travel and Tourism
"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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Travel and Tourism
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Travel and Tourism "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Travel and Tourism
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Travel and Tourism
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Travel and Tourism Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Travel and Tourism
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Travel and Tourism If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Travel and Tourism
