Venetula's Bed & Breakfast - Renovated mansion in Kastoria City; includes photos, history of the property, and contact information.
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Lodging Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Lodging
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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Lodging The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Lodging
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Lodging "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Lodging
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Lodging "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Lodging
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Lodging Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Lodging
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Lodging "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Lodging
"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) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Lodging The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Lodging
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Lodging I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Lodging
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Lodging 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 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Lodging
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Lodging If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Lodging
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 Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Lodging "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Lodging
