PeSY Regional HealthCare System of North Aegean - Profile, activities, links and contact information of this organization of the Greek Ministry of Health and Welfare, focusing on the North Aegean islands, located on Lesvos.
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Health Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Health
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Health When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Health
Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Health "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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Health
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Health "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Health
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Health "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Health
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Health Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Health
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Health Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Health
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Health The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Health
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Health "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Health
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 man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Health Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Health
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) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Health There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Health
