She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Kefalonia Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kefalonia
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Kefalonia "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Kefalonia
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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "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." "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Kefalonia Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Kefalonia
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Kefalonia Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Kefalonia
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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Kefalonia The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Kefalonia
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Kefalonia A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Kefalonia
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Kefalonia The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Kefalonia
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Kefalonia Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Kefalonia
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Kefalonia "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "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) Kefalonia
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Kefalonia Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Kefalonia
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Kefalonia The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kefalonia
