Prefectural Government of Kilkis - Official site of the prefecture, with information about the county, history, agencies, phone numbers, industry, municipalities and tourism.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Kilkis "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Kilkis
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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Kilkis Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Kilkis
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Kilkis Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Kilkis
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Kilkis The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Kilkis
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Kilkis "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Kilkis
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Kilkis We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Kilkis
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Kilkis Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Kilkis
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Kilkis "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Kilkis
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Kilkis Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kilkis
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Kilkis If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken My other wife is beautiful. "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Kilkis
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Kilkis We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Kilkis
