Homo Sapiens Museum - Thematic park, presenting man's journey through the centuries, his struggle and agony for survival, with picture gallery, contact information, opening hours. Located close to Lassithi plateau.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Arts and Entertainment If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Arts and Entertainment
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton 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 Arts and Entertainment Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Arts and Entertainment
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Arts and Entertainment Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Arts and Entertainment
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Arts and Entertainment A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Arts and Entertainment
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Arts and Entertainment "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Arts and Entertainment
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Arts and Entertainment It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Arts and Entertainment
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Arts and Entertainment Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words 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 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Arts and Entertainment
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Arts and Entertainment "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Arts and Entertainment
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Arts and Entertainment "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Arts and Entertainment
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Arts and Entertainment We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment
