From Nowhere to Nowhere - Extracts from a book about Alonissos, with tourist information and pictures.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Alonissos I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Alonissos
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "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) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Alonissos "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Alonissos
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Alonissos The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Alonissos
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Alonissos Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Alonissos
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Alonissos There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Alonissos
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Alonissos "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Alonissos
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Alonissos If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "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) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Alonissos
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Alonissos Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Alonissos
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Alonissos The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Alonissos
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Alonissos The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Alonissos
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 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Alonissos The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr 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 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Alonissos
