Thomas Karaferis' Photography - Photo gallery from Konitsa of Epirus; includes panoramas, and wallpapers of rivers, mountains, and sunsets.
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Maps and Views A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Maps and Views
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Maps and Views
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "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) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) 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 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Maps and Views We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Maps and Views
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Maps and Views It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Maps and Views Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Maps and Views
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Maps and Views I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Maps and Views
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "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) Maps and Views "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Maps and Views Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Maps and Views
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Maps and Views
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Maps and Views I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Maps and Views
