Cooperative Bank of Lesvos - Services of this bank, operating for Lesvos, Lemnos and Agios Efstratios islands.
ETAL S.A. - Services and projects of this local development company for the island of Lesvos.
Doxa - Guide to the beach village of Eressos with details on villas and for rent or sale.
E-lesvos.net - E-commerce portal for the islands of Lesvos, Lemnos and Ai Stratis. Includes information about the islands with links to area businesses, products, and services.
Poulellis Vision Optical Center - Shop in Mytilene selling eyeglasses, sunglasses and contact lens; includes details on inventory, specials, and directions.
Lesvos Chamber of Commerce - Services, objectives and activities on the islands Lesvos, Lemnos and Agios Efstratios.
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Business and Economy "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Business and Economy He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Business and Economy
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Business and Economy A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Business and Economy Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Business and Economy
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Business and Economy I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Business and Economy Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Business and Economy Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Business and Economy
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy 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 To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Business and Economy
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Business and Economy
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Business and Economy Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
