Association of Folklore and Tradition of Afitos - Learn about the community situated in the peninsula of Cassandra; includes events calendar, details on festivals, literature, and the arts.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Arts and Entertainment
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Arts and Entertainment The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Arts and Entertainment
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Arts and Entertainment
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Arts and Entertainment Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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. Arts and Entertainment
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Arts and Entertainment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Arts and Entertainment The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Arts and Entertainment
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Arts and Entertainment I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Arts and Entertainment A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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 But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Arts and Entertainment Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Arts and Entertainment
