INSTAP Study Center for East Crete - Archaeological research facility focusing in the area of Aegean Prehistory. Includes details on projects, an introduction to the faculty, applications, and related links. Located in Pacheia Ammos.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Education
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore 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 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Education
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Education Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Education
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Education After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Education
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Education Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Education Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Education
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Education The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Education
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Education I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Education
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Education I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Education
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Education In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Education
